When You're In A 'HOLDING PATTERN'

When You're In A 'HOLDING PATTERN'

Remember those times when you felt anxious, like you were waiting for something to happen BUT didn't exactly know what that was?  If it sounds familiar, because at some points in time, we were in that situation When You're In A 'HOLDING PATTERN'.  Mr Webster defines HOLDING PATTERN as that 'state of waiting or suspended activity or progress'💎💎💎

Several times in my past flights, I vividly recall seeing several planes lining up and preparing to land.  Whereas, our plane then circled around the airport until they got that PERMISSION TO LAND.  Indeed, this is a realization that many points in our busy lives are all about waiting.  This seems to go against everything we are taught in life, because life is supposed to play out in a forward- moving motion, a process, a plan to keep getting ahead📌📌📌

Indeed, we should be moving forward to grow more maturely, to grow older.  We move ahead to finish schooling, we move onwards to find employment, to get the first job we want and so on.  Then, we start our own families, we buy our first car [even if it is a second-hand one], then eventually buy our dream home [not the best but the best based on what we can afford] and we live life.  BUT if you pay attention, most of us really DON'T spend the time we have in between our own HOLDING PATTERNS.  Frankly though, we do, BUT usually while in the midst of it, we feel many other things and grow invariably frustrated.  We are often NEGATIVE.  We get upset, grow sick of waiting and are frustrated about things NOT going the way the process is supposed to go in our minds⏳⏳⏳

Here's a sampling of our never ending HOLDING PATTERNS.  WHY ISN'T MY JOB PROMOTION HAPPENING YET?  WHAT WILL BE THE FINAL DIAGNOSIS ON ME?  DID I PASS THE EXAM?  IF I NEED TO "RESET", HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR ME TO RECOVER?  Those are samplings of HOLDING PATTERNS where we tend to be in a 'state of flux✅✅✅

So what's our FIX?  Let's embrace the fact that by default, our life is within a HOLDING PATTERN.  WHY?  Are the events we plan and expect tomorrow are all guaranteed to happen as per plan?  Are our expectations for that sales appointment guarantees that that client will sign on the dotted line?  To settle things down, let's accept that life is by itself a HOLDING PATTERN❗❗❗