Wait For A Moment Or Live Many

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There is nothing more beautiful than having what you desired. That sense of accomplishment and happiness of having what you wanted is different. But has it ever happened that you wanted something and got that but with a long very long wait. How does that feel? Do you feel the same kind of achievement or elation? Well for me it then becomes just another day or just another achievement to be honest.

What such kind of situation does is it lowers the expectations for your next achievement or next goal or next plan. I distinctly remember such an incident that happened with me after got an offer letter from my first company. I graduated from college and got a job offer from L InfoTech, this was in the month of August. We were having a clue that we would be getting joining in couple of months i.e. October or November. No points for guessing, it got delayed (could be normal too) and it finally came in January. In the mean time I was so tired of waiting and gave an interview in a different IT company in January and got selected. They were prompt in Joining and gave a joining date in 12 days. But by that time all the expectations and plans that I had from my first day in new company had become stale.

There is nothing negative about this nor does this have any depressing flavor to it. It is just that when you wait for such a long time to savor the dish you prepared, but the dish becomes cold that does not have the same punch as a fresh one. Same has happened with people who have waited for a long time to find their true love or job or promotion or a new car. As Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother has put it, “Everyday I stop believing a little less and not in any weird depressing way”. The only difference is you don’t stop believing a little less, it is just that you feel less thrilled about it.

Well what could be the remedy in such a situation? Glad you asked, the simple thing is there are only few things for which you wait this long, there are many moments that thrill you, there are many situations which can give your sense of achievement and thrill you. Life is full of possibilities and full of such thrilling moments. Just kick that can down the road in a weird way and who knows you could be the next TikTok starJ.