WAITING

August 10, 2024 Opinion

WAITING will zap you of whatever hope you have left in your system and will spit it out like phlegm from a bad cough. Waiting sucks to say the least. In waiting for a bus I should have been in two hours ago, I had no choice but to sit still and become a literal “lady in waiting.” I have a bad ass habit of missing my bus rides and for that I am notoriously sorry. I have become a chance passenger hall of famer, knowing how to wile away a few hours of delay, armed with the patience and remorse any late comer has.

Aside from being a professional procrastinator, I have likewise mastered the art of finding myself in the middle of a small mess. Nothing is simple in my Murphyed law life. The outrageous happenings… Happen to me, making no teacher or guidance counselor believe the reasons I have indicated in “late pass” slips in school. The sheer unlikelihood of events which conspire against me have earned me a fan base of incredulous professors, irate teachers, and a student affairs office ready to offer me to the underworld if only to be rid “of that girl who thought she could get away with THAT excuse,” least I say … I was plagued with late slips until my extended college life.

Maybe I attract complications or was the inspiration for the status “It’s Complicated,” whatever it is, I have accepted the tragic satire of my life, comforting myself in the thought I will never be bored and plain. A reading assignment has made its mark and I frequently remember Godot at the times I wile away time in an attempt to be productive despite losing precious hours to the immobilizing game of wait. Well while I search for my Godot… it is proverbial, nothing will happen.