Dear Waiters,

Students often come up to me and say, “It’s only 38 days until my birthday.” And I’m amazed at how good you are at figuring out the number. But it’s not just that you’re good at math; you’ve spent a lot of time looking forward to it.

Waiting is hard. As you get older, it seems like it gets easier. But it doesn’t. You just learn to do it with a little more grace.

But my hope is that you never get too good at waiting and lose the ability to look forward to things. Because the world is too full of wonderful things to not always have some light you’re walking towards.

Sincerely,

Mr. H