Waiting : A hacking code of Life

 

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience"

Waiting, often seen as a mundane and frustrating activity, is actually an integral part of life. It's the code in the DNA of living. I am trying to understand it very deeply. Waiting is also a reminder of the impermanence of life. Everything in life is temporary, and waiting is a reminder of that fact. When we are waiting, we are forced to confront the reality that we do not have control over everything in our lives. We are reminded that life is not about achieving our goals, but it is about the journey and the experiences along the way. I wonder sometimes that we are just idle sitting(i.e.  just waiting ) fuel cells, using  oxygen to combust for energy, so that nature uses us for doing incomprehensible work or act. This fuel cell type living creates both life cycle and multiple events in life cycle. For example the life cycle is caused as follows: the oxygen which we inhale is converted to carbon dioxide, which travels in air, combined with sunlight and chloroplast cells shall undergo the process well known to us photosynthesis and prepare some living chemical compounds or molecules that will make the tree or plant  grow. this tree/plant leaves and fruits  shall be eaten by eaten by us and  a carbon-oxygen cycle starts. For multiple events example, the plants/fruits are eaten by  goat. This goat grows and gives milk. This milk shall be drink by children. This nutritious milk will make child active and he shall play the ball game so well in the park. the ball kicked by child crosses the park border and falls on the road, suddenly the fast moving car stops which creates accident behind injuring a man on bike. Now the man is in hospital bed, now I ask myself  many times this puzzle. how an idle man  who is very very far away, unrelated  has been the role in the blood bleeding of another man. This is just an example how nature works in mysterious way. we are nothing, out of ego we feel we create events. Deeply having a comprehensible introspection we will realise that we are never doers. What we are just is a chemically loaded bags who do the act of waiting.

In Hindu mythology, this concept is exemplified by Nandi, the vehicle of Lord Shiva. Nandi waits patiently outside the main temple, while Lord Shiva resides within. This symbolizes the importance of waiting in our lives and highlights the idea that we can find meaning in simply waiting i.e. waiting is not just a physical act, but also a spiritual practice. Waiting can be a time to slow down, to take a deep breath, and to simply be.

I love this words from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke which can only be digested well, if we understand waiting. Poets words goes like this:  "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." And to Live everything we need "wait" and embody the "waiting" as our living code.