Waiting For A Train

I had such a different experience this afternoon. We went on a train station and waited for more than 2 hours. First call to the hotline, they said its going be there then second call after an hour only to be told that there is no train at all. We went waiting for a train that never arrived.

Well, there are quite a number of learnings there. First, always check schedules before travelling and second, it pays to ask. But more than those practical learnings, it actually points to a reality in life, the reality of waiting. Most of the time we find waiting discomforting. Life is waiting. Parents waiting for a child to be born, students waiting for graduation, engage couples waiting for marriage and many more. There are waiting that has answer but there are waiting that has none.

There are times when we get tired of waiting and I think it’s okay, we just need to accept things as they are and do the best of the situation while waiting. A train may not arrive on the time we wanted but as long as we wait, we will have a ride eventually.

by aats