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
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
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
