Enjoy The Wait

By Emy Louie. Edited by MM.

You know what I enjoy doing? I enjoy waiting — for someone, for something — like waiting for the bus, airplane, train, or automobile. I enjoy arriving early and waiting to meet someone. I get to slow down and not be in such a hurry.

In the Western world, it appears that keeping people waiting is unacceptable. It’s generally not acceptable for someone to be late for a business appointment.

For pleasure appointments (for non-business), I enjoy doing nothing much and waiting. To keep someone waiting or to wait for 15 minutes is okay. Thirty minutes is stretching it. Anything over 30 minutes is awful.

I can wait up to 90 minutes. Either I relax and think of barely anything or I read a book–probably the two most enjoyable things I can think of doing.

I miss the days where we didn’t look at our smartphones all the time, stoking our already overstimulated and overactive minds.

Except for being behind the wheel, waiting is a joy!