Good Things

May 24, 2017
Is it true that good things come to those who wait?
I can think of a few good things worth waiting for: sunrise, sunset, Christmas. Waiting often means delay of gratification. Waiters at restaurants take your order and you wait to be served your food. Waiting can result in impatience depending on your level of hunger--or when stuck in traffic and waiting for lights to change, especially if you are running late for a meeting. That can't be good.
What is it about waiting?
Waiting brings anticipation when you are looking forward to special events--graduation, wedding day, the birth of a child, or a dream vacation.
In my younger years, my favorite season of the year was Fall. It signaled when Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas holidays with family were just around the corner. After the dog days of Summer, the cool down in temperature is a welcome relief. I love the surround of brilliant colors against a cool blue sky. The dusty scent coming through the vents when you flick the thermostat to heat for the first time of the season makes me want to curl up for a long Winter's nap.
Spring never pulled at my heart strings in the same way as Fall until I became a gardener. Each year I look forward to the unfurling of the fresh green leaves and the blush of Spring. I know my wait will be rewarded with thousands of cheerful blooms. Yes, good things come.
Plants bloom at different times of year and some seem to take forever and a day to bloom. Literally. It can take the Century Plant 100 years to bloom. We thrill at the flowers and then the whole plant dies. Did we wait? Yes. Did something good come? Certainly. And then it dies? Wait! What? Is that a good thing? You decide.


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