You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.
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What we do while we wait may be more important than what we are waiting for.
When you are constantly waiting and wanting your declaration is that you are NOT.
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".
When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael
A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.
Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.
I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.
So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.
Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.
Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a __e must do something universe,_ it is a __e must be serious universe!_ Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To survive in this universe, __aiting_ must be abolished!
The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.
You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay.
And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.
Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it.