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Most people dislike waiting. There seems to be little joy in queuing and all the other things you either wait for to begin – or to finally end. Thus we try to rush things and make them happen earlier. Or we will search for distractions to shorten the perceived time while waiting and today’s technology allows for lots of them. Let’s play a quick video game, chat with our friends, scan the news, listen to some music etc.

You might wait for a small thing like the release of a new movie, the end of a boring presentation or the subway to arrive. And you might wait for big things too: finishing university, finding the perfect partner for a lasting love, earning your first million, retirement or even becoming enlightened.
If one digs a bit deeper you’ll discover a consequence of waiting that is usually overlooked: as soon as you start waiting you’re no longer living now. Most likely you’ll live in a future that seems a lot nicer than the current moment – a future offering something good or great or at least better than the present. You want that – and you don’t want what is now.

Is that bad? Or wrong? No, but it’s an inevitable consequence. And the only time you can actually be in is now. You can’t be in the past nor can you be in the future. Either you live now or you’re dead. So as soon as you wait your mind wanders into the future and takes over control. You’re no longer present – you no longer live now.

Another popular form of waiting is procrastination. You know what should be done – now! But you prefer to wait – but wait for what? For a better time to do it? No matter when you do it you will do it now (that is in the present) or you won’t do it. You can’t do it in the future or in the past.

This special waiting line leads nowhere. No subway will finally arrive, no boring presentation will end and no perfect partner is at the end of it. In fact this waiting line has no end. You might have more or less clever reasons for queuing here. But at the same time you know it leads nowhere.

I’ve tried to put some of these ideas into a song. Follow the link to read its lyrics and hear what I came up with. Thanks for listening!

Most people dislike waiting. There seems to be little joy in queuing and all the other things you either wait for to begin – or to finally end. Thus we try to rush things and make them happen earlier. Or we will search for distractions to shorten the perceived time while waiting and today’s technology allows for lots of them. Let’s play a quick video game, chat with our friends, scan the news, listen to some music etc.

You might wait for a small thing like the release of a new movie, the end of a boring presentation or the subway to arrive. And you might wait for big things too: finishing university, finding the perfect partner for a lasting love, earning your first million, retirement or even becoming enlightened.
If one digs a bit deeper you’ll discover a consequence of waiting that is usually overlooked: as soon as you start waiting you’re no longer living now. Most likely you’ll live in a future that seems a lot nicer than the current moment – a future offering something good or great or at least better than the present. You want that – and you don’t want what is now.

Is that bad? Or wrong? No, but it’s an inevitable consequence. And the only time you can actually be in is now. You can’t be in the past nor can you be in the future. Either you live now or you’re dead. So as soon as you wait your mind wanders into the future and takes over control. You’re no longer present – you no longer live now.

Another popular form of waiting is procrastination. You know what should be done – now! But you prefer to wait – but wait for what? For a better time to do it? No matter when you do it you will do it now (that is in the present) or you won’t do it. You can’t do it in the future or in the past.

This special waiting line leads nowhere. No subway will finally arrive, no boring presentation will end and no perfect partner is at the end of it. In fact this waiting line has no end. You might have more or less clever reasons for queuing here. But at the same time you know it leads nowhere.

I’ve tried to put some of these ideas into a song. Follow the link to read its lyrics and hear what I came up with. Thanks for listening!

Most people dislike waiting. There seems to be little joy in queuing and all the other things you either wait for to begin – or to finally end. Thus we try to rush things and make them happen earlier. Or we will search for distractions to shorten the perceived time while waiting and today’s technology allows for lots of them. Let’s play a quick video game, chat with our friends, scan the news, listen to some music etc.

You might wait for a small thing like the release of a new movie, the end of a boring presentation or the subway to arrive. And you might wait for big things too: finishing university, finding the perfect partner for a lasting love, earning your first million, retirement or even becoming enlightened.
If one digs a bit deeper you’ll discover a consequence of waiting that is usually overlooked: as soon as you start waiting you’re no longer living now. Most likely you’ll live in a future that seems a lot nicer than the current moment – a future offering something good or great or at least better than the present. You want that – and you don’t want what is now.

Is that bad? Or wrong? No, but it’s an inevitable consequence. And the only time you can actually be in is now. You can’t be in the past nor can you be in the future. Either you live now or you’re dead. So as soon as you wait your mind wanders into the future and takes over control. You’re no longer present – you no longer live now.

Another popular form of waiting is procrastination. You know what should be done – now! But you prefer to wait – but wait for what? For a better time to do it? No matter when you do it you will do it now (that is in the present) or you won’t do it. You can’t do it in the future or in the past.

This special waiting line leads nowhere. No subway will finally arrive, no boring presentation will end and no perfect partner is at the end of it. In fact this waiting line has no end. You might have more or less clever reasons for queuing here. But at the same time you know it leads nowhere.

I’ve tried to put some of these ideas into a song. Follow the link to read its lyrics and hear what I came up with. Thanks for listening!

Most people dislike waiting. There seems to be little joy in queuing and all the other things you either wait for to begin – or to finally end. Thus we try to rush things and make them happen earlier. Or we will search for distractions to shorten the perceived time while waiting and today’s technology allows for lots of them. Let’s play a quick video game, chat with our friends, scan the news, listen to some music etc.

You might wait for a small thing like the release of a new movie, the end of a boring presentation or the subway to arrive. And you might wait for big things too: finishing university, finding the perfect partner for a lasting love, earning your first million, retirement or even becoming enlightened.
If one digs a bit deeper you’ll discover a consequence of waiting that is usually overlooked: as soon as you start waiting you’re no longer living now. Most likely you’ll live in a future that seems a lot nicer than the current moment – a future offering something good or great or at least better than the present. You want that – and you don’t want what is now.

Is that bad? Or wrong? No, but it’s an inevitable consequence. And the only time you can actually be in is now. You can’t be in the past nor can you be in the future. Either you live now or you’re dead. So as soon as you wait your mind wanders into the future and takes over control. You’re no longer present – you no longer live now.

Another popular form of waiting is procrastination. You know what should be done – now! But you prefer to wait – but wait for what? For a better time to do it? No matter when you do it you will do it now (that is in the present) or you won’t do it. You can’t do it in the future or in the past.

This special waiting line leads nowhere. No subway will finally arrive, no boring presentation will end and no perfect partner is at the end of it. In fact this waiting line has no end. You might have more or less clever reasons for queuing here. But at the same time you know it leads nowhere.

I’ve tried to put some of these ideas into a song. Follow the link to read its lyrics and hear what I came up with. Thanks for listening!