Hello Everyone!
Hope you all are doing well in your life and living a healthy life. I found this week's contest “SEC-S13W5 – While you wait..."by Steem Venezuela an interesting one. This is 1st time I am taking part in any contest organized by Steem Venezuela . Hope you would like my post.

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Do you consider that all time should be productive?

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We have a saying here that "Don't sit idle, do something, even if you tear your pyjamas and stitch them again.". Another one is empty mind, devil's house" So here I want to say that we are conditioned from our childhood that we should keep doing something all the time and doing nothing is waste of time. But as we grow up and develop understanding about the world, discover that it is not always true. We are just human beings not machine and unlike machine we have emotions and thoughts. Even a machine can not be productive all the time, and needs to be shut down for some time in between, before it start production again.

All time need not be productive, rather we should focus on quality time to maximize our productivity.

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So here as per my understanding our all the time can never be productive in terms of any activity or output. But yes sitting ideal or at resting phase we are recuperative ourselves, talking to ourselves, thinking and contemplating, it all comes under some type of productivity. So if we think like that, we are productive all the time.

What do you think of John Lennon's phrase: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans"?

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It is a truth of life! We all make some plans and goals for our life, but it is the fact that every time we can't achieve that. What ever you are trying to do to achieve your target could be in your hand, but at the same time we forgot that other circumstances around us are beyond our control. Our life is not what we are thinking for doing, life is the accumulation of whatever is happening around us all the time.

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Here it doesn't mean that we should not set any goal or make any plan for future, we should! Because achieving something starts with thinking, if we will not desire or think about anything how we will proceed to achieve that? But on the other hand, the surrounding whatever is happening and how it could affect our life and plans/goals is nobody knows. That's' why this John Lennon's phrase: “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans”? Is so true and well experienced by all of some at some stage of our life.

What do you do in everyday situations where you have to wait, a traffic jam, electricity and/or internet interruptions, etc?

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This is the era of high speed travel and high speed internet, and we are so used to speedy thing that everything we want fast in our life. Even we are making everything faster, but should not forget that nature doesn't make anything fast. Fruit take their full time to ripe. Here I just want to say that we, the human beings, want to get everything fast and this psychology of "fast and speed" making us impatience unconsciously.

Here question asked is very genuine because it is seen that we become unrest if we have to wait for something, it is because our mind is conditioned for faster and speedy task. In the situation mention above in the question of whenever I stuck in traffic jam stop at signal, I just relax myself and watch surround, listen some soothing music. And if it is taking more time, I just finish calling some important call and messages.

Similarly, in the case of electricity/internet interruption, I take this an opportunity to read some books or finish some other task like arranging shelves or cleaning. Going out and enjoying the nature is also a good option I sometimes choose in such a situation.

Have you decided to have an attitude towards life while you wait, or do you only think about goals to achieve?

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We must understand that waiting is not a curse! It is just our impatience that makes us unrest during waiting. Some of my friends used to tell me impatience person, and yes, they were true. I was impatient. But now I have changed my attitude towards life and always try to remain calm if I have to wait for something. Waiting or just being patient is just a pause ⏸ in the way of achieving our goals or target.

Conclusion

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In a nutshell, waiting is an unavoidable situation in our life. We must evolve ourselves for patiently waiting. Sometimes not waiting and trying to achieve our goal in a hurry can take us away from our goal.

Hope you have liked my post, please leave your feedback in comments.

I would like to invite @daprado1999, @emmy01, and @hotspotitaly to participate in the contest.

Thanks and regards
@chetanpadliya