So much of life is spent waiting. There's a joke that Brazilians love waiting in line. We wait to get served, we wait on other people, we wait on God.

If that is so, why are we so impatient? Why want it now, when it's almost certain that it will come later? What is wrong with taking a day at a time and enjoying each moment?

Perhaps we've been trained for immediacy. The media certainly encourages it, manipulates us through it.

Philosophers have preached the evil of desire that demands immediate gratification, or sometimes against desire itself. Desire is not wrong, given the proper confines and timelines.

Darkness, however, comes when desire is an end in itself or when a greater good is sacrificed for it. Darkness desires to overcome us and seeks to use our desires to do it. Impatience is its tool.

So let us wait and learn, wait and grow, wait and find eternity coming to our rescue.