Passively or Actively Waiting
Change is in the air: my family unit will be moving from the Midwest to the Southwest in the New Year. The various decisions that need to be made in the next two months are causing me anxiety and I just want to get everything figured out and finished up! Unfortunately there are a few things that need to happen first, and so now we are in this awkward moving purgatory. This has gotten me thinking about the different types of waiting. Frequently, I am guilty of the sort of waiting that is really procrastination: "I'll wait until my life is more settled before I start that project." or "Once this happens, I'll do that." In those cases, the delay is because of me, perhaps because I'm struggling with my mental health, or just my tendency to over-extend myself with largely pointless projects. Still, with procrastination it is ultimately up to me. However, right now we're waiting on things outside of our control. There are things that we can do while w...