Author: Jairo Alarcón Rodas
You must wait when you are desperate, and walk when you wait. Gustave Flaubert
Waiting is a term that can have many meanings that are applicable to various situations and situations. However, all waiting involves a desire to receive something or for something to happen. You wait to go from an unsatisfied situation to a satisfied one, but you also wait until it’s time to leave work. Some, on the other hand, hope every day to be able to eat to live, others, how to get more money to satisfy the excess. It is meant to leave states of pain and distress to reach states of peace and well-being.
Waiting is expected in the near or medium future, so it is established as a series of moments that lead to the confirmation of a desire or obtaining some result. I hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow, they close the door, they get up early, I hope it changes. Being a wisher can also have negative interests, such as when you think about someone and expect them to do very badly.
The sick hope to be cured, the young people hope to make their dreams come true, the criminal is waiting for his next victims, so they don’t attack him, the believers are waiting to go to heaven, those who do not believe in God hope for one. a better world here on earth. In a way that waiting is not necessarily compatible with suffering and silence, on the contrary, it encourages reflection and action, it is intended as a desire to achieve something.
The honest hope for a better world, the wicked take advantage of it without scruples and at all costs. Some are waiting for luck, others are waiting for an opportunity to achieve their goals. Waiting is the desire for something to come, a possibility that, in life, is possible. The wishes are many, the expectations are like those that depend on waiting.
Some hope, perhaps the least, to move from darkness to light, with their own idea of what that means, what it means to get meaning back. So, for some the light is darkness and for others the opposite. The world of shadows that Plato spoke of, which makes up our nature and its special condition, under the influence of education and lack of culturemakes us judge shadows as brightness and consider that view as the right one.
So the light represents the ignorance of leaving, however, many refuse to leave it, either by their will or by being prisoners with their boundaries of unconscious and dark characters. For this reason, many believe that the light is in a transcendental and ethereal world, which is reached through obedience and self-denial, they hope.
Some may confuse waiting with hope, however, they have their differences. While waiting there is an area going between the present and the future, hope is fixed in the latter, even if it does not come true. Therefore, it can cause satisfaction or discouragement, depending on how it was produced. What is Hope? Hope is an attitude or state of mind, the belief that positive change is possible, and the willingness to set goals and work towards them. As said before, hope also has two faces, one that the optimist sees and the other that the optimist sees.
A better year is expected because human beings always work for good, that is the goal of their lives, although many times they do not achieve it and see their desires and concerns frustrated. Expectations are what allow human beings to continue living. What is expected is directly related to each individual, so they expect something similar but different in intensity.
What do human beings expect? They hope to satisfy their essential needs such as any existence, but they also have other specific desires, unique to their species, called anthropine, as well as individual desires, giving a- including unnecessary ones.
There is no animal that succumbs to excess, however, for humans, this is something common and everyday. Therefore, although everyone works for good, as Augustine of Hippo would say, because each entity works for goodyour actions may harm others. So everything that doesn’t cause any harm, any damage, would be good.
For Nietzsche, Hope is the worst evil because it prolongs the suffering of man.However, people can’t stop waiting. What would life be like if there wasn’t something to look forward to, something that changes the situation, maybe a surprise. It would be an unexpected situation, no attention, nothing.
The return of a loved one is expected, goodbye, many hope to continue living, even if they die. Waiting is fed by what is possible, although dreamers expect the impossible, counting on the difficulty of imagination and fantasy. Waiting opens the doors to a universe of possibilities that, for Søren Kierkegaard, is not possible in human beings, because they inevitably meet death.
But, there is no waiting unless you have the breath of life because, after death, there is nothing to wait for. For the poet Jorge Luis Borges, waiting is the result of a confluence of events and thus: Before the doorbell rings and the door opens and you enter, oh waiting anxiously, the universe must have set in motion an infinite series of concrete actions.. In a way that the fact of waiting carries a whole series of previous events that lead to what is wanted.
You can expect something that you know will not come. Mario Benedetti says wistfully in one of his verses: I will wait for you when the night turns to day, sigh hopes already lost. I don’t think you’re coming, I know, I know you’re not coming. In a short time, however, waiting can bring disappointment, boredom and distress, which is what moves everyone to expectations and also to action.
