Right Here Waiting

Someone once said, ~True love is waiting an eternity for one moment, one kiss, one smile. True love is wanting anything and everything for that person, whether you can't give it to that person or not.~ In a metaphorical sense, life is like an airport where millions of people each day come and go. Essentially, there is one constant when it comes to being in an airport and that is we wait. Whether its waiting to board, unboard a plane or waiting for a particular passenger or passengers that's what we do in life especially when it comes to love. For if life represents an airport, then each gate is a representation of love possibly walking through those gate doors for every person and yet the question remains which gate is it?

Which gate is it? Answering that particular question is easier said than done as every person asks themselves questions in which they not only want to know where but when will that special someone arrive? If you think about it, it's when one looks up into the bright or starry filled night sky you metaphorically look at the schedule times of when and where that person may be arriving. For we all can stare up there all we want but the fact of the matter is it doesn't accomplish anything and it can cause you to explore other areas in life that you haven't seen and/or experienced. Essentially, it's when you do explore other areas in the airport of life you encounter interesting people who start out as strangers then become your friends.

As with any airport, delays are expected which can make one's wait unbearable to where a person can become somewhat or extremely anxious. It’s within those moments of anxiousness a person will go through a rollercoaster of emotions such as frustration, confusion, yearning, and anger. When I mention anger, it's not due to that person's absence; but rather the emotions you put yourself through, which is totally unnecessary and can somewhat border on the melodramatic. We've all witnessed someone go through it and whether or not you want to admit or not you have to admit it's mildly entertaining to watch as you see people's reactions when they finally see the person or person's he, she, or they have been anxiously waiting to see.

Let me ask you this question, how long have you been waiting for that unknown passenger to walk through the gate that leads straight into the terminal of your heart? Without a doubt, it can truly be uplifting as you see men and women smile as their special someone walks through the gate doors that they've been standing in front of and into his or her arms. However, it’s when you stand in front of the gate you think he or she may be coming out of, you can become disappointed as you end up basically staring into a long barren tunnel, which is a representation of your own heart, hoping he or she is the last one to come out. it's at that point you either give up waiting or continue waiting because you still have faith and hope that he or she will show up.

In the movie The Terminal starring Tom Hanks the main premise is about waiting. Waiting to go to New York to fulfill a promise for his father; waiting to go back to Krakozhia, and most of all waiting for love. In some aspect, we're all considered a Viktor Navorski as each of us are waiting in front of a gate with flowers in hand for that special someone. Yet one has to keep on living and/or exploring the airport of life with people that you befriended along the way. In the end, that special someone will someday walk through your gate but in the meantime you telepathically say to him or her my heart will always be right here waiting for you to give. Plus, its a song by Richard Marx that tends to reflect this thought.