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How Many Moments Do We Miss While Waiting for Better Ones?
Your “normal Tuesday” might be the good part you keep rushing past.
I wonder how many times I’ve said it. “I’ll enjoy life when things get better.”
When I get a better job, I’ll be happy. When I have more money, I’ll travel. When I finally make it, I’ll be proud of myself. When life calms down a bit, I’ll make time for the stuff I love.
Funny thing is, I always sound so sure when I say it. Like the future is a place I’m definitely going to reach, and today is just the boring road to get there.
And somewhere along the way, I stopped noticing that I was treating my actual life like a waiting room. Something to get through. Something to survive and tick off.
Think about how much of your life goes into waiting. We wait for the weekend and complain our way through Monday to Friday. We wait for the holiday and wish the days away to reach it. We wait to achieve something big before we let ourselves feel proud. Sometimes we even hold back on being happy because we feel we haven’t done enough to deserve it. Like happiness is a prize you only get after you’ve suffered enough.
And here’s the part that gets me. When the good moment finally shows up, we barely stay in it. We say “okay…
