Are You In A 'HOLDING PATTERN'?

 

Are you in a "HOLDING PATTERN" in life?  I remember quite multiple times I was airborne and our aircraft was in a "HOLDING PATTERN" and for a one-off scenario, I remained oblivious as I remained glued either on the infight movie I was so caught up OR my audio playlist just kept me 'hostaged' that long☝☝☝

In real life, we are gently reminded that that HOLDING PATTERN is our state of being in the moment.  IF you've ever felt anxious in your daily life, LIKE you were waiting for something to happen?  BUT you DIDN'T know exactly WHAT that would be anyways?  YES, been there many times, felt it, got it, from time to time in fact, and even as we speak now, sometimes, I do get caught up with that inevitable HOLDING PATTERN but WHAT matters most is that I [almost always] refused to get 'hostaged' even in the midst of those circumstances.  More than that, I realized that was life in stages💥💥💥

Doing a lookup at the dictionary, it says that the HOLDING PATTERN is a 'state of waiting OR suspended activity OR progress'.  Oh yes, at one point in one of my previous flights, I was too conscious of the aircraft taking the opposite direction away and farther away from the airport we're supposed to land.  And at one point, it made me anxious [as I started thinking of those 'worst case' scenarios like 'is the plane being hijacked'], ouch😡😡😡

So, you might retort like "WHAT's THE FUSS WITH THAT HOLDING PATTERN" in life?  Good question.  Generally and by default, that puts us in that 'suspended state', unable to take action [even as it's NOT within our control].  LIKE those flights in HOLDING PATTERN, once the pilot receives clearance to proceed in landing, life then continues NOT only for the pilot BUT for all the passengers on board.  WHAT a relief by then😁😁😁

Our takeaway here is pretty obvious.  THAT is, many points in our lives are all about WAITING.  This seems to go against everything we are taught in life because life is supposed to play out in 'FORWARD-moving' motion like a process for it to keep progressing.  We move FORWARD to grow older.  We move FORWARD as we are educated.  We move FORWARD in our career.  We move FORWARD with our family.  Dude, ARE YOU STILL IN A 'HOLDING PATTERN'???