Voices in the Waiting....
I am sitting in a waiting room, almost bored out of my mind, when I realise that i really haven't done this in a long time..waited, i mean. I haven't sat in silence in a room with little to no stimulation and waited for events outside of my control to take place so that I can move on to the next stage. This probably explains why there hasn't been a post on here since the beginning of the year. This waiting room is quiet but not completely silent. The cashier can still be heard attending to a customer and close to the queue, a five year old is being chided by her mother for trying to collect all the bacteria off the room's surfaces with her body, a couple who serendipitously realised they are on the same bus are catching up in the corner and next to me i hear the rhythmic breathing of the teenage boy next to me. There are also sounds coming from outside, the loud hooting of cars, people hollering at each other in the streets and the screeching of brakes is faintly audi...