The wait

I was travelling so I went to the airport because I had a flight to catch. I reached airport way too early because I didn't wanted to get late. In the process of that I left early and my driver drove like a roller coaster and dropped me off at the airport.

I entered and was moving towards my airline's counter. I was nearly 20 to 30 steps away from my counter when I saw a huge queue of nearly 30 to 40 people piled up around the counter. So I dropped the idea of going there and went to the automatic kiosk, instead. 

I wanted to have a window seat but had to compromise anyway. Later I got to know that the seat selection can be done at the automatic kiosk as well. But my kiosk didn't gave me that option and I was way too impatient to stand in the queue and then have the boarding pass. Simply putting, I didn't wanted to wait.

I had the security check and then I went on to board my flight. Just then I got to know that I have to wait for next two hours before I can actually board my flight. I started blaming the driver for driving so fast. I started blaming the clock for moving too slow. I started blaming a handful of things but didn't care to blame my lack of control.

All of this happened because I didn't wanted to wait. In today's world we tend to hate things that keep us waiting. In the sense of development, we have become so fast oriented that we have come to forget the benefit of patience and waiting. Our mind is always in a hurry to reach the outcome, to reach the response or to reach the output.

The trajectory is something that we never realise the difference of and the true orientation of it. In our inside we see it to be a linear path that is followed by us to reach a particular destination. But in reality the path is like a semicircle where the initial and final points are there on the ground and reachable for us but the trajectory is itself in the space which is never in real sense a road which we try or want to walk upon. 

We go to a restaurant, order dishes and then start waiting. But the wait is over as soon as our mind is devoid of any actual work like talking, which is the most basic action. We get restless so as to where our order is and why is it taking so long for it to be served. Similarly we make goals for our life.

We choose career options. But most of the time we are so immersed in the fantasy of visualising ourselves in the form of the goal we selected, that we lose our internal static track. We tend to lose the idea of waiting while working to the core for our future goal. We are so happy and satisfied in just thinking about it that we follow the semicircular path rather than the linear one. Only difference being, one is actual and the other one is virtual. 

Cake takes time to get baked. Pickles need time to age. Wine taste better over years. It is just that many things seems better when it is cultured with love, time and effort. And Rome wasn't built in a day. Waiting is not letting yourself down over something or losing something. Rather it is the way of making things better.

Coin has two sides, but this concept has many. It depends on which part or side we rely on and try to visualise better.