today

One might say that waiting would mean to perceive the duration and the present not like a gift but like an obstacle. To deny and destroy their value, to leap over it with one's own imagination. Waiting, they say, is always too long, but in the end it is not. It is exactly the opposite, it is short, too short and damaging since it consumes time that falls behind unused, un-lived and wasted.

Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain