W A I T I N G

Took baby steps this week in venturing out, just to a nearby bakery and as we waited for our order to be packed, different thoughts run through my mind.
It is strange, this, the familiar, every day things we used to do.

The past six months (yes six can you believe it?) have been a hibernation of sorts, buried as we have been.
Work mostly.
But also fear and uncertainty.
So many things happening in the world and in our nation that have been fuel and fodder for the anxiety addled brain.

So while the pandemic and nations rage, one thing has remained constant though.
The times that we have spent in waiting.

For test results.
Meetings online.
At quarantine centres.
Across food lines.
For a chance to go home.

It hasn’t been easy; not in the least.
All those times we preached to our children?
About patience. And learning how to trust that things will work out?

So while we wait for better days, for vaccines to be ready, for a chance to meet and hold our loved ones again, maybe it’s time we practised a few.

Hope.
Not so much for a cure but for a chance to better ourselves.

Trust.
Not that when will this end but what will we do when all this ends.

Faith.
That we make a glorious, selfless, kinder version of ourselves than the vitriol that is being spewed every day. Despite and inspite the fear and the raging helplessness.

Reboot? Heck yes. We need it.
Now more than ever.
So waiting?
Watching the buffering?

It’s not that bad.
Far better than error 404 not found.
And while you wait, take time and smell the coffee.... 😊😊