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In life, if there is no expectation of ‘Waiting’, there will be no hopes and dreams.
In the past, I did not like ‘Waiting’: whilst standing on the pavement, I hated waiting for the traffic lights to turn red; whilst travelling by public transport, I hated stopping at every station; whilst going shopping, I hated waiting in the queue to pay; and when dining in a restaurant, I was even more disgusted with having to stand and wait for a table. Everyday life was like a series of combination of ‘waiting’.
Once, in Guandu (Nature Park in Taiwan), I spotted a group of people each holding a set of binoculars, all watching the blue sky, a piece of swamp and the whole red mangrove wood. I could not keep from asking them curiously, “What’re you looking at?”
They naturally responded, “We’re waiting!”
“Waiting for what?”
“Waiting for birds to fly pass!”
Another time, I was by the seaside where I saw many people each holding fishing rods facing the sea; their fishing lines were cast far into the distance, and each of them carried a calm and unhurried gaze in their eyes. I asked one of them, “What are you all thinking about when you look at the sea?”
They replied, “We’re waiting!”
“Waiting for what?”
“Waiting for fish!”
Then, in my daily life, I also started to learn the awareness of ‘waiting’: waiting for traffic lights to turn from red to green, waiting for the sun to rise, waiting for the night to turn to day, waiting for a kind of ‘sediment’. ‘I started to have enjoyment’. In fact, ‘Waiting’ can change one’s mood to be delightful.
In music, if there is no ‘rest’, there will only be ‘noise’.
Within a painting, if there is no ‘space’, there will only be ‘mess’.
In life, if there is no expectation of ‘Waiting’, there will be no hopes and dreams.
When it rains, I wait for the sun to come out; and as the rays of sunlight shine through the clouds, I finally see the rainbow.
