By O. Deng, TIWP Student

 “Thank you for your patience!” they say, and I just nod and smile because what can you do except wait? (I spend my minutes waiting for the hours to pass, and I spend my hours waiting for days to pass, and I spend my days waiting for weeks until weeks turn into months and months turn into semesters and I wait for senior year so I can graduate and never see these people again.) I feel impatient every single second. I wait and wait for things to get better, for things to go the way I wanted. But they never get better, do they? And the moment something shows a fraction of improvement, I wonder how long it will take for my progress to fall back. “You can’t sit here and wait for success to happen, you have to work for it,” they say. Sure, that applies to some people, but for others, success seems to hit them like a bolt of lightning, changing their lives instantly and forever during a moment of pure randomness. I’m sure they’ve waited their entire lives for that moment. “Patience is a virtue.” True, I wait but that doesn’t mean I’m patient. I wait because there’s nothing else I can do. I’m patient for something that will never come