...wait almost over...
And the week of waiting is now over.
Waiting is a fuel for creativity. Really. Never does my imagination go as wild as when I am impatiently waiting for something I really really want. The longer I wait, the more reasons I conjure up to explain the delay.
Excitement... anticipation... irritation... annoyance... anger... fury... concern... anxiety... worry... ImaginationRunsWild... tired... boredom... hope... optimism... ... ... exhaustion.
So much research has actually gone into this strange thing called waiting:
1.The study of lines ( i mean queues) http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/20/queuing.psychology/index.html
2. count-downs on traffic intersections http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/taiwans-solution-to-traffic-jams/
3. mirrors in elevators http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1244-defining-the-problem-of-elevator-waiting-times
I could go on, with this list but i will then be deviating from my point( if there is one!). Like everything else, waiting has a strange balance to it. In an interesting lecture on Emotional Products, the speaker talked about the enjoyment in the roller coaster of emotions that the film industry has mastered. We love stories that build an interesting plot, and we WAIT till the end to see the resolution...
The problem really is unanticipated BLANK time. Unaccounted time that we see as a clog in the hourglass.
