Anticipation can be a terrible and wonderful thing. Anticipation is the emotion that can cause us to find pleasure on the one hand or to be anxious on the other. Anticipation is an emotion that seeks us out when we are considering or awaiting an expected event.
Anticipatory emotions include fear, anxiety, hope
and trust. When the anticipated event fails to occur, it can result in
disappointment or relief. When the anticipated event does happen it brings joy,
relief or hope.
When we are anticipating an event, time slows down for
some and for others it speeds up. If time is slowing down for you think about
this, what if it takes a long time? So, what if it's already taken longer than
you thought? So, what if it will still take longer?
The event will happen. The day will nevertheless
arrive, as it always does, when all your prior efforts, determination, and
persistence will seem a paltry price indeed as you are lifted irrevocably
higher, as if by chariots of fire, into realms previously unimagined, and then
you'll think to yourself, "Wow, that happened so fast."
I can hear the music now as you celebrate the
anticipated event with a wonderful display of pride and enjoyment. As one of my
friends reminds me, life is good as it sure beats the alternative.
