THE AGONY OF WAITING

I am waiting for my ortho to relieve me from the plaster (slab) put on the ankle of my right leg. Yes, there was an accident. The X-ray showed that one of my bones in the ankle fractured. It happened on the last of Nov. 2019. I am unable to go out because I can’t walk. I could move only in a wheel chair that I have at home. I am still waiting and waiting enjoying the agony of waiting. Only thing I know for sure is that the healing will take a full 6 weeks for a old man like me. The six weeks comes to an end on the 10 Jan 2020. So I have to wait!

In fact, a part of our life is spent on waiting for someone or something. Waiting is not a pleasant activity, still we have to wait. Waiting is always for a result that may be for good or bad. Similarly in the time scale waiting may be for a short time or for a long time. Everyone experiences waiting every day. In fact, we spend a lot of time in waiting in spite of various measures taken to avoid waiting by modern-day technologies. However we do wait and wait.

We wait at various places for various purposes. We wait at traffic light, at banks, restaurants, hospitals, railway stations, airports etc. So considering all these we all are spending a part of our life in waiting only. Waiting is enjoyable at times like sitting in an air-conditioned lounge or waiting for our dear ones at airport or railway station. But at the same time it is painful if we don’t have time and peace of mind. We do take appointment to meet the doctors or advocates or VIPs. Even in these cases we have to wait for our turn. 

 How to utilize the waiting time? One may carry reading materials like a book. Nowadays it has become a habit of browsing the net in our smart phones or calling some friends and chat as long as one wants. Waiting in a queue is not a pleasant activity. It happens in a bank, ration shop, clinic and a shop. Some people know the trick of jumping the queue without considering the people in front of him or her. Quarrels spring up and always there’ll be an uncertainty of reaching the head of the queue. Also sometimes, some people are clever enough to manage the queue by entering into the cabin and talk to the officer who is known to him/her as a friend or relative. This happens even in a clinic. So for the people who wait for their turn it becomes real agony.

The importance of a queue system is for giving the opportunity for people who come first will be served first. In certain places such system works successfully because of the cultured people ll one gets what is wanted after even a long wait gives enormous happiness and joy. On the other hand if one gets an unpleasant thing after a long wait, it’s a great disappointment. Let us hope the New Year (2020) brings happiness and good health to all. Let us wait and see. - NARA