The Waiting Game

We seem to spend our lives waiting...waiting to get our driver's license, waiting to graduate high school, then college, then get a job, etc. etc. I know what you are thinking...No, I never waited to be of legal drinking age, (that is more of a family tradition you could say!) Then we get the job, get married, have the family and... WHAMMO!...Hold on...wait a minute! I woke up and realized my son is now in college, my husband and I are closing in on retirement, our lives have been rolling along, not slowing down or waiting, it's all I can do to keep up! If I would look in the mirror every now and then I would have noticed more wrinkles and gray hair! (I avoid mirrors at all cost...thus, the ratty hair and smeared eye-liner!)
I quit sweating the small stuff a LONG time ago and quit focusing on what is waiting around the bend. Life is too short to spend thinking about what you are waiting on to happen. The lovely roller coaster of life keeps it real and sometimes REAL interesting! I am thankful for what I have.
Right now, personally, I am in a GREAT place. My son is in his first semester in college, my marriage of 27 years is rock solid, I am surrounded my a great family and a large host of friends. Professionally...that's where it gets rocky. I love my job (teaching Chemistry), but I am not crazy about my profession at the moment.
I have a theory...if they would pass a law that would not allow anyone to become an administrator until they have taught for a minimum of 15 years (IN THE CLASSROOM!), we could eliminate many of the problems teachers face today. Our administrators are 1) too young, and immature; 2) do not know what it is like to be in the trenches day in and day out. We need educators in charge of education, not MB A's, or twenty-somethings with a junior high mentality.
So now I am waiting for our administration to gain some common sense...but WAIT...never mind! I'm not wasting any more time thinking about THAT!