Anticipation

 Anticipation can be a terrible and wonderful thing. Anticipation is the emotion that can cause us to find pleasure on the one hand or to be anxious on the other. Anticipation is an emotion that seeks us out when we are considering or awaiting an expected event.

Anticipatory emotions include fear, anxiety, hope and trust. When the anticipated event fails to occur, it can result in disappointment or relief. When the anticipated event does happen it brings joy, relief or hope.

When we are anticipating an event, time slows down for some and for others it speeds up. If time is slowing down for you think about this, what if it takes a long time? So, what if it's already taken longer than you thought? So, what if it will still take longer?

The event will happen. The day will nevertheless arrive, as it always does, when all your prior efforts, determination, and persistence will seem a paltry price indeed as you are lifted irrevocably higher, as if by chariots of fire, into realms previously unimagined, and then you'll think to yourself, “Wow, that happened so fast.”

I can hear the music now as you celebrate the anticipated event with a wonderful display of pride and enjoyment. As one of my friends reminds me, life is good as it sure beats the alternative.