Wait A Minute!

Why is life so full of waiting? Waiting on the next paycheck. Waiting on the next semester, or the next day. That it might be better or put us further a head so we can then wait for our career to take off, for our classes to get more interesting, to complete our all important plans. We wait on a girlfriend or boyfriend. We wait to get engaged to the special someone then we wait to get married, next is the honeymoon! We wait for our kids to be born, more importantly the pregnancy to end. Then for then next eighteen years we wait for them to move out. The four years after that we wait to stop having to pay for everything they do and the mistakes that they make. Then we wait to retire. We wait to see our grandchildren, and then we end up waiting on the dentist to give us our dentures, and in the bathroom line for the tenth time in that day.
We spend so much time waiting, dreaming of the next best thing. What we don’t realize is often times we don’t get a chance to see the things we are waiting for or are disappointed by what they look like when we get an extended look at them. Why is it that we either rush past or sit idle while something wonderful is right in front of us?
We always hear people say that we may not have tomorrow. While this is true it may be more accurate to say we may not have the next hour, minute and so on. Life is fragile and we need to start capturing the moments that are WAITING FOR US TO DISCOVER THEM. Just a thought I had.