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There are occasional circumstances that require arriving early to get in line to wait. That’s right, let’s talk about time that does not seem to mean anything. It is easy to think about travel this way. And medical appointments also. But waiting occurs in everyday situations. Stop lights, alarms, timed cooking, etc. It’s life as a racecar driver. We wait and then bolt ahead. Humans accept those waits because they have been normalized or have a sense of reward. And then there are the self-imposed waits we place on life. These sound more like aspirations. It could be attached to a belief. Life will be better when that new job shows up, that mole gets correctly diagnosed, the school year ends or my eyebrow grows back. These waits are strewn about all over our lives. The best thing I can say about them is they don’t require sitting in a waiting room just watching a clock. Even worse, others are called first and get ahead of me in line. Giving up observing my waiting times is a challenge I have taken on. Time always passes anyway. It may be better for me to stop watching the clock and do something else to distract myself. Maybe read more or take up knitting. Whatever it turns out to be is okay with me as long as it doesn’t require waiting around for it to occur. My waiting is going to become more active and less passive.
You are Extraordinary!
Week 29: Lessons in time
As an experiment, I decided not to wear my watch for a day. Of course, I still had access to the time handy. Computers keep that annoying track of time in the bottom corner. But I tried to rely more on guessing what time it might be throughout the day. I checked the weather out of the window, the rumbling of my stomach and even the amount of time I thought a task would take. The best timekeeper I found was my cat. He finds me at definitive times for a bowl refill. We don’t need an electronic bowl with a timer as long as his tummy works. I tried this out at night also when I woke up. Some nights I thought I still had multiple hours of sleep to look forward to, and others made me sad knowing that I only had an hour until the alarm would chime. The strange thing was that I felt I had slept enough to get up with either. No waiting required.
