Time
Thud...thud...thud. Thud...thud...thud. What's that? It's the sound of your heart beating. Your consciousness is at a heightened state. Yet everything is standing still around you. The only activity in this confined space is the fan, churning the air on.
In the next room, you can hear the trickle of water as it drops on the basin. Thud...thud...thud. And that reminds you that your heart is still beating. And how long has it been? As your consciousness moved from the water back to the clock in front of you, you started hearing it too. Tick tock tick tock tick tock.
Oh dear, has it only been...1 minute? So you went back to pacing the room. Ah yes, what exactly is it that you are waiting for? The phone idiot! You are waiting for the phone to ring!
And before you start formulating shallow thoughts that this is about waiting for a guy you like to call, think again. This is more excruciating than that. Add to that the fact that some people around you already know their fate. But there is nothing you can do. Nothing, but wait for that sentence to arrive.
I wish, at times, that I can be a cool sitting duck. Yes, like the one below.
But I know that right now I am this:
In the next room, you can hear the trickle of water as it drops on the basin. Thud...thud...thud. And that reminds you that your heart is still beating. And how long has it been? As your consciousness moved from the water back to the clock in front of you, you started hearing it too. Tick tock tick tock tick tock.
Oh dear, has it only been...1 minute? So you went back to pacing the room. Ah yes, what exactly is it that you are waiting for? The phone idiot! You are waiting for the phone to ring!
And before you start formulating shallow thoughts that this is about waiting for a guy you like to call, think again. This is more excruciating than that. Add to that the fact that some people around you already know their fate. But there is nothing you can do. Nothing, but wait for that sentence to arrive.
I wish, at times, that I can be a cool sitting duck. Yes, like the one below.
But I know that right now I am this:
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