TM Topic #164 – What are you waiting for?

[thecricketer]

I have found that waiting, however frustrating, can often be used to one’s advantage.

I’ve grown quite accustomed to being thrown in jail cells, chained to walls, held at gun or swordpoint. Usually I spend the time altering my plans, making new ones, manipulating my captors. There is always a way to be productive, to even the odds in your favour. My mind is the most powerful weapon I wield, and it cannot be chained by steel or silenced by peril.

My problem, you understand, is that it is far easier to slip through the bars imposed by another than those that spring from your very own psyche.

I know a great deal about Time. The technicalities and abstracts, the equations and philosophies, the rules and exceptions, I’ve got them all memorised.

I know that you cannot wait for it to fix your problems, and yet here I am, doing just that.

I strive to remember all the faces and voices of those I’ve travelled with, and now I desperately wish this one would fade away.