Waiting
Recently, I took a book quiz linked on someone's blog. I know it was supposed to be for fun so to speak, but I took it a little more to heart than that [so sue me].Disheartened is a good word for how it struck me at first. I was like, "Wow. This is a little too coincidental with the facts of my life right now." I like to take stock in silly little things such as this book quiz thing. Maybe it's the romantic in me. Maybe I truly believe in fate.
So, here is the book I am:
WAITING FOR GODOT
A tragicomedy in two acts. "...one of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity; with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."
You're Waiting for Godot! by Samuel Beckett
Many people think you're extremely dull, but you're just trying to be patient. Really patient. Patient to the point of absurdity, quite frankly. Whatever you're waiting for isn't going to just come along, so you can stop waiting. I promise. Move on with your life. Change of scenery might do you good. Heck, any scenery might do you good. In the meantime, you do make for very interesting conversation.
Gee. That's a little harsh, eh? Now you can see why I was a little disheartened. Whatever in life I am waiting for, well, I can just stop waiting because it isn't going to come along. Man.
Yeah, I went and bought the book [you can sue me again for that one]. I just finished, and I did find it interesting. And the one-liners throughout were brilliant and introspective. [I'm still big on one-liners.]
So why do I wait? And wait some more? And then more with the waiting? It's true. I don't seize the day. Carpe diem - HA! I laugh in the face of it. Whatever project is going on with me, I know there will be a more convenient time and more reasonable circumstance for me to complete the tasks necessary to achieve my goal. Sometimes those circumstances manifest, of course, sometimes not.
Am I going to continue to wait for Godot? Now, that this flaw has been brought to the forefront of my attention - I guess we will see if I am content to settle in and continue to wait for him, if I am going to move on and give up waiting any longer, or if I am going to go beat down Godot's door and take him by the neck.
What book are you?
http://bluepyramid.org/ia/bquiz.htm
