the gravity of time.

it strikes me today how one word can change everything. you may think that "if" is the word, but today, i tackle "wait".

the waiting room. the world is a waiting room. people waiting for opportunity, waiting for a sign, waiting for love, waiting for death.

there is no comfort to be taken by that fact that billions are doing this. is this really all we are? reduced to people too afraid of taking a chance, to seize the day?

i don't mean waiting for a person to show up on a date, or waiting to cross the road. the kind of wait i am talking about refers to the code of procrastination people nowadays live by, hoping something better will come along. i find, however, that most of the time, it just makes things worse.

i blogged awhile ago that there are certain things, certain sets of circumstances that cannot be changed. while in situations such as these, the wisest course of action would be to "do nothing", i did not mean for someone to sit on their lazy ass and wait for change, but not to retaliate aggressively, charged with irrational emotions.

to do nothing when nothing can be done is a philosophy that i actively live by. reacting in a way that will do nothing to help a situation is something i try very hard not to do. on the flip side, i do believe that no good will come to a person who does nothing to improve their quality of life. what that constitutes is, of course, subjective.

carpe diem quam minimum credula postero, as the greeks say, for you know not if it never comes.

advice that i take to heart the same as the day i first heard it. there simply isn't time.