In anticipation

“I can’t wait!”

The unusual thing about this phrase — when we’re honestly excited about a thing — is that we’re saying we can’t do the very thing we must do.

And curiously, the shift from discomfort to peace is a matter of doing less, not more. Because time moves at its own pace without our participation. So our job — as it so often is — is to manage ourselves and to let time do what it unchangeably always has.