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I AM WAITING

 
‘’Am Waiting, Am Waiting, Am Waiting’’ is a makeup chorus in one of the SpongeBob SquarePant’s episode, for those of us who love cartoons. SpongeBob one day found written on the box of Garry’s (his pet snail) food ‘’free gift inside’’ so with great exhilaration he ran back to the grocery store, bought a whole lot of snail food boxes, went home and started eating the snack so he could get the free price in the box. He eventually found one gift coupon which he posted so he could get his free gift by mail post. With this same excitement SpongeBob remained by the post box waiting for hours for the post man to arrive with His gift, at first the wait was stimulating because he knew he was expecting something then after a while he began to worry if His gift would actually come, after some minutes His apprehension began to grow that while he was yet by the post box he got depressed and wept ‘’oh I wasted my whole life waiting by this post for my present’’. Patrick his dumb star fish best friend replied ‘’ but SpongeBob you have only been waiting for just two hours’’. ‘’It feels like a long time’’ SpongeBob bawled. While He was wailing the post man came and handed him a tiny toy which was of course the gift he thought he had been waiting for his whole life.

Sometimes our lives feel this way, we start out with great expectations and excitement about something that we want, it could be a long wait after a job interview in a choice company, it could be anticipation for children in a marriage, a hope for a business deal that would roll in the big pay check or it could even be an expectation for your dream man or woman. But one thing is for sure there is an initial enthusiasm as a result of these expectations whether material, financial or otherwise. It causes you to have a mindset of sanguinity. Have you noticed how everything seems to light up when you anticipate something good? The sun will look brighter; your delight opens your senses to pick up scents, musical notes, sounds or feelings that would have been ignored if you weren’t in a good mood. You even become happy about yourself.

Unfortunately, unlike SpongeBob most people do not get their surprise gift or planned expectation. Why? Because at some point they lose the excitement and hope begins to fail at the slightest chance of delay, then they begin to question the very thing which they gladly waited for. Did I waste the good part of my life waiting for the dream man or woman to come? Will I ever have children? Or I just might have spent a good part of my money on a failed business. These doubts begin to cloud our mind and open the door to depression because like SpongeBob we think we must have waited all our life to get something that might never happen.

In truth, you truly might have only waited for a short while and this means you have some more time to still expect. If you hold on a little bit longer it just might be the next thing that slips on your lap. ‘’I Am Waiting’’ is an Attitude. If you look it up in a dictionary, you will find attitude to be the position of the body or way of carrying one self, a posture, a disposition or a state of mind.

How do you carry yourself when you wait? Is it with confidence, optimism or with eagerness, or are you one to carry a posture of depression, with a facial expression sending miserable signals everywhere or will a cloud of defeat hover around your head? Remember that ‘’Waiting’’ is not doing nothing but a state of mind. So you decide…what state of mind are you in right now concerning that expectation of yours?

Your disposition will determine if you get that which you have been waiting for.

 

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