While Waiting

I believe it's natural to always wait and hope for something wonderful to happen! The mystery that shrouds the WHAT makes it exciting and lets us look forward to the time when the WONDERFUL unfolds. But should we really wait for something wonderful to happen?

Time is gold, goes the adage. For someone who has been literally up and about as a working professional (employed/self-employed), I feel uncomfortable being "unproductive" so to speak. For the past few months, I have not been actively attending to projects, as one has been temporarily suspended and another has already concluded. Added to this, I've a condition that limits my mobility. But there is that nagging feeling that I ought to busy myself with something, anything, despite protestations from the hubby. He says not to rush into anything just yet, and to enjoy the "quiet" time that I have. It's a gift he says and that I might want to use this time to think of exactly what it is I really want to do.

I'm sure that there is some sense of reason behind Gani's advice. I know that this restlessness stems from not being used to the idleness and, I dare say, uselessness. Oh, I try to make myself useful, going about simple chores in the little pad we call home, away from home. But somehow, these mundane tasks leave no sense of accomplishment or fulfillment at all.

With too much time on Facebook, Youtube and Pinterest, one cannot help but get affected by the short, long, humorous, motivating, and encouraging quotes and stories that one comes across after scrolling and shifting from one social media platform to another. Most are sensible, others are trite but regardless of how they are phrased, they somehow affirm what we already know.

As I threw the question to the universe, it threw back some answers; there's no way to know for sure if they are indeed the right answers but there's only one way to find out: do it!

I guess I won't have much free time anymore once I start to:
- write a children's book (maybe on proper treatment toward PWDs)
- conduct pro-bono training and seminars on social graces, personality development, job-hunting for scholars
- edit travel blog for a friend

Being short-term projects, I know that it will just be a matter of time when I will find myself with too much time on my hands...again! But for now, I will try to accomplish as much as I can! If I can wait for something wonderful to happen, I guess I can also create wonderful moments while waiting. And then maybe, I might not have to wait at all.