{"id":3824,"date":"2020-07-22T22:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&p=3824"},"modified":"2020-07-22T22:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:08:51","slug":"ghaliex-nistennew","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/ghaliex-nistennew\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whether it’s waiting to visit family, waiting for a <\/span>holiday<\/span> or waiting for the end of a pandemic, waiting seems to have become the order of the day. Waiting is lost time<\/span> and we charge for time in money.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>saying<\/span> “time is money” hailed from Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the <\/span>United States<\/span>. <\/span>It’s no wonder that the concept of waiting has such a negative connotation. Waiting, according to the collective experience in Western culture, is considered an imposition. Anyone who <\/span>must<\/span> wait for an appointment<\/span> becomes impatient, often <\/span>angry<\/span> and aggressive<\/span>. <\/span>Apparently, it doesn’t work to see waiting as a gift of time<\/span>. <\/span>Instead of enjoying it, it becomes torture.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether in the waiting room at the doctor’s office or in a conference room at work, waiting often makes one feel as if they are being controlled. Whoever makes others wait has power over them<\/span>. <\/span>Making people wait<\/span> becomes an instrument of power. When we wait, we directly experience the passing of time<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span> On the one hand, we complain about not having enough time and often wish we had this idleness, these pauses<\/span>. <\/span>But the moment someone else makes us wait, we find this very, very unpleasant.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s behind the wait?<\/span> It is true that waiting is something we do every day. But waiting is not just waiting. Take, for example, a musician waiting for his turn to play notes in a <\/span>musical <\/span>score. <\/span>His perception is<\/span> sharpened <\/span>and is<\/span> not simply idle<\/span>. <\/span>S<\/span>ome of us wait for better times, the end of the world or for a baby to be born. Children<\/span>, for instance,<\/span> wait for their birthday or Christmas, often counting down the days. For some, waiting is a gift of anticipation, a promise that will bring a sense of fulfillment and make you feel good<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our society has relatively few areas of life that are not infected by the time-is-money notion<\/span>.<\/span> In other cultures, the experience of time is completely different.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/span>t the end of the day, <\/span>h<\/span>ow <\/span>we <\/span>experience time depends on what <\/span>we<\/span> associate with waiting<\/span>. <\/span>We assume that we organize time ourselves, yet waiting is <\/span>something<\/span> where time comes to you and you ask: <\/span>w<\/span>hat’s in store for me<\/span> in experiences<\/span> and <\/span>possibilities?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Whether it’s waiting to visit family, waiting for a holiday or waiting for the end of a pandemic, waiting seems to have become the order of the day. Waiting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3825,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[174],"issuem_issue_categories":[7],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3824"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3824\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}