Waiting can be a source of frustration,
it can also be a respectable pass-time. It needs to used to be useful.
Its usefulness needs to be learnt. Waiting is a skill. Historical nations see the event as the culmination of a process and so they have neatly calibrated time into events with
causes and effects and a gap that allows a process to reach its
product. That process has caused the
event , the manifest achievement, to become the dictator of
our desires. Visible and quantifiable achievement, that is achievement in the
eyes of others, programs, daily life. It informs the aesthetics of the high
building, of the luxurious dwelling, of most architectural types. The event is our only
way of measuring our immense existence. So immense has this existence become
that it has become overwhelming and completely exclusive. We do not see
anyother way. If A then B. And so, B automatically becomes our epehemeral raison
d’etre, our temporary purpose for our whole being, and the method of achieving it. How
many people have offered their lives to the achievement of conspicuous
consumption?
Waiting allows for chaos or entropy to be reintroduced into our lives.
This is very important. Waiting suspends our immediate purpose and, if
succesful, can even cause us to dislocate from our immediate purpose. Waiting
provides a no-man’s land where contigent events can, by the force of their
presence, their ineluctable proximity, lead to new purposes. Waiting forces us
to use our senses, to rehearse our immediate purpose within the context of our
life. Use your waiting time well, as a member of a contingent audience and
observe and you find your life becoming truly richer.