The Waiting Game
Everyone has to wait on things; it's a part of life. Some of us have been graced with more patience than others, but waiting is still going to happen, whether we are tactful and twiddle our thumbs or we pace vigorously back and forth until we make ourselves dizzy. No one has gone without saying "I am waiting for...(this)" or "I am waiting on...(that)." Here in the American world, we use these terms interchangeably, and there is nothing wrong with that. However, today I propose a difference, at least in my restless mind. Waiting for something implies that we are in anticipation for something to happen. In my thinking, "waiting for" could imply something that is out of our control. We wait for the professor to post our final grade, we wait to see if we got the cute little house on the corner, we wait for our food to cook. These are things that are out of our control, or at least might be ruined if we sped them along. "Waiting for" can b...