HANG IN THERE

There is no denying the fact that I'm one for the future. This is to say that I love thinking about the future or rather speculate about what the future holds. I'd like to think that this in no way suggests that I turn a blind eye to the present or the past for that matter.

Growing up, I remember reading and nodding along the following saying on the wall of my aunt's house each time I went there.

... You can run a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.

Years went by when I finally realized that I was reading 'ruin' as 'run'. This is to say that I was conditioned for all those years when I read and reread the above saying that it was but natural to not really worry per se, but yes think about the future and think HARD.

Needless to say that standing at this particular juncture in my life, I can't help but THINK about the future. The suspense of what next (rather HOW) is what is really killing me and KILLING ME SOFTLY actually. My mum tells me that it's perfectly natural and also tells me what the Dixie Chicks are singing about in the song 'You Can't Hurry Love':

I need love, love to ease my mind
I need to find, find someone to call mine

But mama said you can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait.
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take
I cant hurry love, no, you'll just have to wait
Just trust, give it time
No matter how long it takes

How many heartaches (and advances)must I stand
Before I find the love to let me live again
Right now the only thing that keeps me hanging on
When I feel my strength, yeah it's almost gone

I remember mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
Its a game of give and take.

How long must I wait, how much more must I take
Before loneliness, will cause my heart, heart to break?

No, I cant bear to live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But when I feel that I, I can't go on,
these precious words keep me hanging on

I remember mama sayin you can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said trust, give it time.
No matter how long it takes, gotta wait!

No love, love don't come easy
But I keep on waiting, anticipating
for that soft voice to talk to me at night,
For some tender arms to hold me tight.
I keep waiting, I keep on waiting
But it ain't easy (it ain't easy)
No, you know it ain't easy!

I'm told to enjoy these last few years (read hopefully months!!) as the road ahead is not all metalled. M. Scott Peck speaks of 'Delayed Gratification'.

So the moral of the story is that PATIENCE IS THE KEY!