Waiting

Waiting.. the most boring thing to do. But it is something you could not avoid. One way or the other, you will encounter with your ‘waiting’. It took 60 minutes of waiting for a 20 minutes meet and greet with your son’s doctor, another 40 minutes to get a 20 minutes dental check. 2 hours on ground before a 45 minutes flight. In fact, if you follow the religious preach, living on this very life is actually a waiting, a halt before embarking into another life.

People react differently to a ‘waiting’, or to be more precise, to the boredom that comes in a package with it. Japanese, and most of westerners, will dwelt into book/magazine/newspaper whenever they have to kill time, on train, on airport lounge, during flight. While most of us will end up gossiping..

And waiting has become a business. That’s the raison d’etre of Sony PSP. Nokia even introduced a specific game-oriented mobile phone in their line up. That’s why there’s a LCD screen next to the elevator door in most of the office buildings around Jakarta.

But what about if you are waiting for an execution, like what Amrozi cs or any other death sentence convicted criminals are doing right now? Surely, it is no fun at all. It could be the most effective diet ever. If you took it positively, it could be the best time for self-contemplation. It pumps up your adrenaline. Those who have a weak heart, might not even be survived the waiting. But, I guess, they will be thankful to the boredom. That indefinite boredom is prolong their life day by day..

Once AT&T produced this funny commercial:
A person sentenced with a death penalty is given the chance to make his final wish before the execution team who are lined up ready to shoot him dead. “I want to make a final call to my wife, may I?” And so his last wish granted. But, his smart enough not to make his call short. Till the next morning, he’s still talking on his phone, while the execution team were tired of waiting...