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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Waiting

I came across this beautiful post on "waiting".

Just thought will add some more things to that post as I recently went through an agony of waiting for a specific thing. Firstly Balaji has captured many things beautifuly about this waiting. I agree with almost all his views.

The one thing I want to add more is waiting for an exam is really a pain. In school we keep counting the days when the exam will be over. Especially as Balaji has mentioned History & Geography will be the last exam. With the book in hand we will be dreaming about what to do after the exam. It is an horrible wait.

If you are taking an online exam the wait for the result to appear on the screen after you have clicked the button "Evaluate answers" can be recommended another dreadful wait.

In our school those days after the exams, miss or sir used to bring the corrected exam papers and slowly he will untie the bundle. He will then distribute the papers calling the roll number or name. The moment we wait for our paper checking the reactions of those who are returning after getting the paper is another dreadful wait specially if we dont know if we are going to pass or fail..

Now for the pleasent waits, waiting for the release of a Rajni movie, waiting for a Rajni or Kamal song in Ozhiyum Oliyum (DD days), waiting for dad to come home with whatever we requested him in the morning and he promised to get it in the evening, waiting to see the photographs developed, waiting for call or email from our love, it goes on and on...

If you really want to see the pain of waiting, watch the movie Dead Man Walking especially the last 15 to 20 minutes of the movie shows the most painful wait for a man.

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