We often have to wait for others to show up.  Or wait for our turn. Or wait to get to where we are going.
In this situation, I was waiting for someone to meet me – we had agreed to meet at a particular corner near the subway station. Well, when I got out of the subway, I found that the weather had turned for the worse. In addition, it was rush hour in the middle of Manhattan. I was looking for my friend when I got a text saying he was going to be late. There I am – annoyed, cold, wet, overwhelmed by people – and I said to myself, “alright, what has my meditation practice taught me so far – to be here, now, in the moment, beyond my ‘self’. There is no waiting. There is only right now.”
So instead of just waiting for my friend, thinking more and more about how irritated I was with each passing minute (which is definitely what I usually do), I decided to be in the moment: