Sunday, April 20, 2014

What I have been waiting for…

      Recently I was reading my favorite book chicken soup for the soul on the one night before my exam paper,and  I found an awesome story there.
It’s a list of 100 things for which the writer is waiting.
1. Inspiration
2. Permission
3. Reassurance
4. The coffee to be ready
5. My turn
6. Someone to smooth the way
7. The rest of the rules
8. Someone to change
9. Wider fairways
10. Revenge
11. The stakes to be lower
12. More time
13. A significant relationship to:
(a) improve
(b) terminate
(c) happen
14. The right person
15. A disaster
16. Time to almost run out
17. An obvious scapegoat
18. The kids to leave home
19. A Dow-Jones of 1500
20. The Lion to lie down with the Lamb
21. Mutual consent
22. A better time
23. A more favorable horoscope
24. My youth to return
25. The two-minute warning
26. The legal profession to reform
27. Richard Nixon to be re-elected
28. Age to grant me the right of eccentricity
29. Tomorrow
30. Jacks or better
31. My annual checkup                                                                                                 32. A better circle of friends                                                                                    
33. The stakes to be higher                                                                                       34. The semester to start
35. My way to be clear
36. The cat to stop clawing the sofa
37. An absence of risk
38. The barking dog next door to leave town
39. My uncle to come home from the service
40. Someone to discover me
41. More adequate safeguards
42. A lower capital gains rate
43. The statute of limitations to run out
44. My parents to die (Joke!)
45. A cure for herpes/AIDS
46. The things that I do not understand or approve of to go away
47. Wars to end
48. My love to rekindle
49. Someone to be watching
50. A clearly written set of instructions
51. Better birth control
52. The ERA to pass
53. An end to poverty, injustice, cruelty, deceit, incompetence,
pestilence, crime and offensive suggestions
54. A competing patent to expire
55. Chicken Little to return
56. My subordinates to mature
57. My ego to improve
58. The pot to boil
59. My new credit card
60. The piano tuner
61. This meeting to be over
62. My receivables to clear
63. The unemployment checks to run out
64. Spring
65. My suit to come back from the cleaners
66. My self-esteem to be restored
67. A signal from Heaven
68. The alimony payments to stop
69. The gems of brilliance buried within my first bumbling efforts to be recognized, applauded and substantially rewarded so that I can work on the second draft in comfort
70. A reinterpretation of Robert's Rules of Order
71. Various aches and pains to subside
72. Shorter lines at the bank
73. The wind to freshen
74. My children to be thoughtful, neat, obedient and self-supporting
75. Next season
76. Someone else to screw up
77. My current life to be declared a dress rehearsal with some script changes permitted before opening night
78. Logic to prevail
79. The next time around
80. You to stand out of my light
81. My ship to come in
82. A better deodorant
83. My dissertation to be finished
84. A sharp pencil
85. The check to clear
86. My wife, film or boomerang to come back
87. My doctor's approval, my father's permission, my minister's blessing or my lawyer's okay
88. Morning
89. California to fall into the ocean
90. A less turbulent time
91. The Iceman to Cometh
92. An opportunity to call collect
93. A better write-off
94. My smoking urges to subside
95. The rates to go down
96. The rates to go up
97. The rates to stabilize
98. My grandfather's estate to be settled
99. Weekend rates
100. A cue card
101. You to go first
David B. Campbell.


So here is the list of 100 things the writer was been waiting. I thought at least I can try finding out what I am waiting for… so here it goes.
1.     To complete my graduation with satisfactory marks
     2.     A renowned post-graduation college
     3.     A real college life with true friends
     4.     Recession to end
     5.     For a campus interview to get a job
     6.     A high profile job
     7.     For a first payment to take a gift to my family
     8.     For my own bike
     9.     For my own car
    10.    For my own house in the middle of city
    11.     A extra large bookshelf
    12.    A new pair of contacts with gray shade
    13.    A laser operation
    14.   A trip to Malaysia, France, New York city, Maldives’ beach
    15.  Sky dive
    16.   Deep sea dive
    17. A jackpot
    18.  One chance to do many things
    19.  End of my stage fright
    20. End of my communication fright
    21.     Restoring my confidence
    22.    End of nervous breakdowns
    23.     My own apple i-pod
    24.My first published book
    25.  A simple comment of praising(without any ‘but…’)
    26. A proposal
    27.  A kiss
    28.   A proposal to marriage
    29.    A peaceful life
    30.   World changing event
    31.   And finally a death- to find out where this all leads…
Oops… still something remaining…:P

If there’s afterlife… well let it be…J

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