Waiting Part 2: Rather Random Thoughts

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."--Persuasion

Jane Austen knew the virtues of waiting. Her main characters are always in some state of waiting for happiness.

Too often, we become discontent in our waiting because of comparisons. If someone asks you when you're going to finish school, or when you're going to have a boyfriend, or when you will be done with so and so, it is usually very frustrating. I think we get frustrated by these questions because we assume they are judging us. We assume they are saying "Why don't you have a diploma on your wall yet? I do, look at mine!" When in reality, they usually just care about you and want to know what you've been up to. That's when you look them full in the face and say "I sure am working on it!" :)

"Love suffers long and is kind." Notice that the suffering part is linked to kindness. It's not ok to be mean to others just because you are going through a drain pipe.

The best things in life really are worth waiting for...it's not just a little cleshay phrase. But waiting means fighting, not just waiting.