Are you usually late or early? What does punctuality mean to you and how do you feel people perceive it and respond to it?
Friends of weekend engagement, why am I always fascinated with topics?
I wish I could write about all of them, but of course, as it always happens to me, one of them challenges me in depth and this time it is punctuality. The variants are dramatic, I tell you everything that happens to me with this evil of today's society ! But first I will leave you the link where you find the initiative and you can see there all the topics and ways to participate that @galenkp brings us for these days of weekend!
First and foremost, my punctuality defines me, it is something that I definitely emphasize over other commitments or values. I am extremely punctual, I have never enjoyed anyone having to wait for me, although I understand this as something normal, I choose to arrive earlier. If a meeting is on time, I consider myself “on time” if I have 5 minutes before the meeting to slow down my mind and leave other worries behind.
On the other hand, I have never liked to wait long for someone. Depending on who and the pre-existing or already known situations, I don't wait more than 10 minutes. If you let me know you are coming late and we are seeing each other after a long time, I will wait but not pleasantly. I consider the time to go, to delay, and to spare that I want to have, and I expect the other to also consider this when making a commitment to me. Whether it's a job, a meeting, or a get-together with friends, the other is also clear that my time is worthwhile is the least I consider. Without this, we are not speaking the same language or giving the same importance to the meeting (Spoiler of my life, I am also like this when I get cancelled on time, I burst with rage).
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I hope that up to this point it has been clear that my punctuality really stands out, you could say that I am obsessive about it, it is not a minor issue in my days, making this clear, a hypothetical example: If an appointment starts at 15hs and I want to arrive at 14.45, having 40 minutes of travel, I will leave around 13.45 to not give option to the unforeseen to ruin my commitment. That is to say, a 40 minutes trip and I take 1.15 hrs in advance. Now, how can I explain what happened to me yesterday? Well, I'll try and it will be the best way to portray myself one day “being late”.
Sometimes things just happen, like what happened to me, or like the train being late, or whatever, we are humans, not machines. I understand this perfectly when it comes to being on time, but I like to stand out for being very punctual. So I left for my murga meeting at 1pm as usual. Very quickly I was getting annoyed, because minutes passed and I was still waiting for the bus.
Then I suffered the wickedness of the transport, which passed before my eyes and did not stop. And after half an hour of waiting, I had already been waiting for 50% of the time I have to travel, it deigned to arrive. But the journey, friends, if I could tell you the journey you would surely suffer with me. As this bus goes through several crowded parks, and it is the last weekend of winter vacations in Argentina, there were a lot of people everywhere, which means more traffic, and more people going up and down.
With telling you that having left to arrive in advance I ended up arriving 40 minutes late, in a journey that usually takes an hour and 15, and it took me exactly twice as long, I can not explain how the hate was taking over me, sometimes it hurts me that this emotion of helplessness takes over me, there were people waiting for me, I did not want anyone to lose rehearsal time, and it hurt me to have left with so much time to spare and arrive late. I feel that I failed in my commitment, and in the face of this frustration and enormous pain, although I was not exactly responsible for the late arrival, I have decided to change the way of going, and use other means of transportation so that in the future this will not be an option or an emotion to learn to live with. Did I enjoy the rehearsal? yes, but with a lot of anger, the impotence of not having been able to do more still lasts until this morning.
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I send a big hug to the whole community and always grateful to the topics of conversation I say goodbye until another weekend of engagement finds us! Greetings and good Sunday!
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