(Camera: Ricoh GX200)Jean Giraudoux, the prolific French writer between the two world wars, wrote, "It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."
The same can be said to all other things we are waiting for in our life. Waiting is a close cousin or more exactly a visible embodiment of wanting. It is the want that makes the people and things we are waiting for stand out clearly when they lay before our eyes, be them a bus, a job, a promotion, a relationship, a chance to buy a house or have a baby, and so on and so forth.
In most cases, the story of the modern life is written with a long string of wanting and waiting. Comes the wanting, comes the waiting; and we are conditioned to cherish less those people and things waiting for us, i.e. who and what we already have. No wonder that they stand out less clearly.
Want less, cherish more.
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