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[feldman]

 Scapeartist asked me: "You can help me with some research I'm doing for a future book. Please give me your perspective on waiting and its impact on you if any. I'm leaving it a broad question on purpose, so go with your gut about how to respond. Danke!"

Waiting is the lack of momentum and the loss of control, which can be frustrating or numbing. Those interminable hours with a loved one in surgery. Running out the clock on a dead shift. Labor, fuck, that was the worst kind of waiting because it was also work and struggle and pain, but the uncertainty of it all was the kicker. Waiting sucks...and it's worse when what you're waiting for is bad news, because you inhabit this doomed bubble of suspended grief.

 

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[lunabee34]

This is a really insightful way of describing it.