8<\/p>\n
After breakfast Gareth waited for his tea to steep. Boiling water, loose black tea, clay mug, wait for exactly 5 minutes.<\/p>\n
The zen of waiting.<\/p>\n
Man (and woman) is a creature of habit. The schedules of sun and moon, winter and summer, have become the daytimers and computerized reminders of modern humanity. Waiting has grown to massive proportions in response to this net of time and action.<\/p>\n
But waiting is not a natural phenomenon.<\/p>\n
Hirsute cave dwellers scratching their coarse behinds acted. They waited only for what would eventually be known as acts of god, but for little else. In fact, according to some Ancientologists, the first definition of god was \u201cHe who makes me wait.\u201d They did so grudgingly, thus forevermore establishing the odd nature of the relationship between gods and followers. \u201cI obey, but I resent having to obey. But I obey. See, this is me obeying. But I’m happy. See. Oh, and by the way, can you make the cave elk visit our neck of the woods while I wait? Only seem fair… ”<\/p>\n
The new gods are our clocks and computers and day books and spouses. These are the modern phenomena that make it impossible to eliminate the concept of time and its outcome, waiting. Time is such an arbitrary thing. Why this month I exist at the same time as Saskatoonian Manfred Wolinksi and then suddenly next month he and I will no longer occupy the space time and would, if we happened to meet, be separated by an hour-long continuum gap. Make it ridiculously hard to have a conversation if I do say so myself. And yet we all accept this as normal.<\/p>\n
Every morning hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people get in their cars and rush to and from for 20 minutes all trying to get to the office by 8. Why? Because our \u201cgods\u201d say works starts at 8, or 9, or even noon. At 8:05 the streets are practically empty. But do sensible people start work at 8:14? Or 9:07? Or even 12:22? No. And why not? Because the religion we’ve built around wanting to wait has one basic tenet: Go forth and make things as hard as possible on as many people as possible.<\/p>\n
And then wait.<\/p>\n
For the tea.<\/p>\n
For exactly 5 minutes.<\/p>\n
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