My high school basketball coach was the first person to say this to me, and it confused me. He would also tell us to "be quick, but don't hurry". It felt like conflicting messages. He would compound these messages by telling us to "let the game come to us".
I wanted to get out on the floor, run the ball up and down the court, and play the game. I had a hard time learning to ease off the gas pedal during the game, but that's what the coach would tell us. "Let me call off the dogs." It was up to us to play as well as we could at the fastest pace that we could. His job was to temper the pace of the game, as he saw fit. I wanted to force the game, but he was trying to teach us to find our place in the game. Eventually, I would learn what he meant by all of these phrases.
I also heard similar words at work. However...believe it or not...the words were even more thinly veiled than my basketball coach's. Sometimes it seemed like my bosses didn't really know what was going on, or what the plan was...so, they would just give me something to do to keep me busy.
Throughout my professional career I would have to wait on things...other employees to complete their part of the project, the organization to get to a better point for me to help it, waiting on deadlines to arrive for me to do my part (procrastination...ahem), project submission then waiting to learn the fate of the submission. It was never easy, but it gets easier with practice.
Life would teach me the meaning of these words....Adam....just wait!
The lesson is patience, but I guess that there are better ways to say it. Although, sometimes I would prefer to be told to be patient, rather than being kept in the dark about plans or what's actually happening in vague terms.
Now, Katy and I are hurrying up and waiting for the next big moment in our lives. As I write this, there are 10 days between now and our baby's due date, June 5th.
I really want her to get here. I really want her to wait a little while for us to finish getting ready...Ha! Yeah right....ready! We've been waiting for 38+ weeks! What's a few more days?
It seems like forever, but I know that it's not. Once she gets here, I'll probably want time to slow down. I know, I know....I want my cake and to eat it too. Can you blame me? We've prepared the nursery, received many wonderful gifts from our loved ones, and we even received a certificate of completion from our childbirth education class. So we're ready...HA! Ready! Yeah right!
But it feels weird. We know that she's on the way. There's a clock on the wall that's counting down, but I can't see it. I don't know how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds are left to 0, but I feel it. It's getting closer, but at the same time, it feels so far away.
I guess we'll hurry up and wait.
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