Psychology of Waiting!

Psychology of waiting? Is there anything called psychology of waiting? Yes may be not as a theory but it does exist and all of use it unconsciously to achieve various ends. We can see this concept even in the major religions of the World including Christinity where people waited for 2000 years for Christ and they are now waiting for the second coming of Christ; in Hinduism people have been waiting for the avatars. It is such a powerful phenomenon and infuses hope in some and desperation in others. Those who can cope with it seems to have greater endurance. What happens when we wait? It depends on what we are waiting for, if you are waiting for your girl friend it is a pleasant waiting. Even while waiting for your girlfirend without know whether she will come or not, it can be painful waiting. So waiting seems to trigger both fear and pleasure zones of our brain making us feel the intense feeling that we have. Not many of us are good at waiting especially when everything around us has taught us the importance of being quick. Waiting makes us weak at times and it will make us compromise. We will be ready to come down a great deal if we were made to wait for too long and what we are waiting is too important for us. Some nasty bosses make us wait for too long for that promotion that we are expecting, that rise that we are expecting. While we are waiting we will be all the more submissive because we will be afraid the becoming aggressive we may lose what we are waiting for. A pregnant woman waits for her baby's delivery just to hold her baby in her hands and along with it is tinged the fear of painful delivery and risk to life. So when we are waiting there can be a mixture of more than one feeling.