Day 48

'High Port -Flachauwinkl', Pen on Paper

Today's 'draw' is from the seating area at High Port at the base of one of the slopes in Flachauwinkl, which is where we were all waiting on the bus back to our apartment.

Whilst sitting there I was thinking about how the majority of our existence is a process of waiting... we wait for years to pass into months, months to pass into days and days to us pass by without us even realising. It is one of those things that we can either have complete or absolutely no control over, much to our own consternation. Whilst waiting we have the ability of exhibiting patience but it would seem only when there is no other option available, what I mean by this is for example if we are waiting to complete a task and the only option we have is to wait for 3 hours before we can do that... then that's what we do. However if there is any possibility that we could or should be able to complete it sooner then this is when patience is ignored as we allow ourselves to become increasingly worked up. Also for some reason we hate to wait on other people, it is something that we absolutely loathe as we are expectant and as such they should be where they need to be, when they need to be there, on the other hand though we hate it when people don't wait on us. In any instances when we are waiting when we don't feel we have to, even if only for a few minutes, it is enough to incense and enrage us. It is in cases like this that we can end up getting into a full scale argument the irony of which being that it normally wastes even more of our precious time than we had to begin with. However this is sometimes the only way we can see of making sure that this is not something that will repeatedly happen to us in the future. Thinking about it then rather than valuing patience as a virtue, it seems to be more a case of patience being askew as it is only advantageous when we decide that it works in our favour... otherwise we cast it aside in the hope that intimidation can overcome and resolve the issue. I suppose then it all comes down then to the time we have at our disposal as it's one of life's most precious commodities and something that is very easy to lose but something we can ever really gain.