Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

by Lauren Graham

In our next segment, President Hillary Clinton (it’s only March as I write this, so I’m just guessing)

“It’s coming, just not on your time frame.” I find this a helpful reminder in any number of ways: not only when you’re hoping to meet someone, but also when you’re waiting for a better job or for some relief during a bleak time.

But life doesn’t often spell things out for you or give you what you want exactly when you want it, otherwise it wouldn’t be called life, it would be called vending machine. It’s hard to say exactly when it will happen, and it’s true that whatever you’re after may not drop down the moment you spend all your quarters, but someday soon a train is coming. In fact, it may already be on the way. You just don’t know it yet.

There’s more comedy in failure than in success, and it’s a much more universal language.

Sometimes the idea of doing something is the most fun part, and after you go through with it, you feel deflated because you realize you’re back to looking for the next thrill. Often, waiting reveals the truth about something, and not responding to your every impulse can save you the heartache of waking up in the morning with a sense of regret

Spend some time with just yourself and your thoughts and nothing to do. How else will you learn who you are?

“Here lies Ms. Jackson, she took more steps than the other old biddies on her road” – is that the best I can leave behind? Is it all just designed to keep us looking down, or to give us the illusion that we have some sort of control over our chaotic lives?

Look up! Look up! What you see might surprise you.