Why Are We Always Living In The Future? - Samuel Beckett on The Game of Waiting

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Everyone who is also waiting for someone or something to happen, stay strong soldiers.

As someone who's been waiting 2+ hours for my roomate to return so I can eat the leftovers in the fridge, this is just what I needed to hear. I don't need to wait and now I am not only happy, but full of pizza 😌

'None of the characters in Waiting for Godot have a meaningful purpose. Waiting for Godot might seem to give Vladimir and Estragon a purpose, but the fact that Godot never arrives renders their waiting meaningless' I wrote a paper on this play once and it was really depressing, you start questioning your entire existence after reading this play. You covered this topic really well, loved it! ❤️

"Treat these periods of waiting with a healthier mindset." Thank you I needed that.

The video I didn't know I needed. I truly never understood why I felt so depressed from too much freedom when I was always waiting for it. And maybe this explains that getting everything we've ever wanted makes us feel empty.

I love how his shooting/editing/talking style evolves with every video. I am indeed proud of him.

I've grappled with this idea for a while, and after university, it took me longer than a year to really get back to the rhythms of habit. Things are starting to feel more cohesive yet again. As for the frustration we experience whenever we're met by the unexpected, or the absurd, I like to use the Stoic practice of negative visualization to counteract it. It really helps! On a side note, grammarly saved my ass as well during my final semester in uni haha. So many essay deadlines!

Gosh, I love your videos. It is always a nice break from the mindless media normally consumed. It really scratches an itch in the back of my mind that wants to hear thoughtful commentary. Thank you making these videos. Plus your voice is really soothing. :)

Waiting for love.... waiting for love.... you know, that has been the thing I waited for the most over the last ten years (I'm almost 19): LOVE. To fall in love with someone. Well, I have never been in a romantic relationship, and as I was the "freak" of the classroom during the first half of my teenage years, I somehow, without noticing, I figured out the perfect way to not feel anguished by the wait of something as abstract as falling in love: have habits. This video reminded me of the value of habits I've been adding to my life, and further reinforced my connection with them as well as with time for myself (which is most of my time). Thanks to the power of habits (reading, writing, filmmaking, working out and painting) I feel like the thing I have waited for will eventually arrive, it's just that it will when I least expect it to. R.C. Waldun, cheers for this nice video. I wish the best of luck for your studies. (Or, as the french say to wish luck: MERDE!)

Thank you so much for this video! I am grateful for this little pocket of time and space, the in between of point A and B, that little moment filled with mundane little things such as reading a book, drinking a glass of water, going in for a walk, and/or etc. Maybe waiting is just another point of view on the appreciation of the journey more than the destination. The knowing that you already have what you’re waiting for so what’s left is to just be.

THANK YOU!! I’ve always had this weird thing where too much free time during vacations gave me such existential depression and anxiety about death. But this video gives me hope. It’s ok to have nothing to do. I think capatlism really drove forth the narrative of “monetizing your time” with the ideal being productivity 24/7. But not only is that unhealthy and impossible, it literally defies the purpose of freedom.

I read the play a few months back. I really enjoyed it. I have pondered over the idea of us humans waiting. I sure wait for the best time to do things and it's painful. Waiting for something great to happen and once something as such has come to pass I wait for the next best thing to happen. I guess that's what is life is about

"To love is so short, to wait is so long." -Pablo Neruda

Absolutely incredible. Thank you so so much. You have no idea how much sense you made... Perfect sense

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, before we can appreciate the enjoyments of life. "Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God deigns to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words,--- "Wait and hope." -Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo

Intresting how you said we tend to get mad if someone scratches our car or does not get out food order right

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“Enough, I said to myself. Just go. When you’re on your deathbed you’re gonna wish you could get back all the time you spent waiting for other people.” -David Wong

Isn't it exactly that which is the essence that pierces through all of Beckett's work: Godot, Happy Days, Endgame. The inability or unwillingness to confront and to face the truth, to face the silence. There is never silence in Beckett, always talking (Too much talking). There is nothing interesting about the ''Concept of waiting'' it is merely the set-up which serves as the gilt frame the artist works within. We have a series of characters they are all pretentious, horrible people - Why do they not move? Why are they stuck, because they ''Cannot''. Beckett is woven into the modern tragedy, his plays are tragedies - They express our inability to change or to move forward or to confess or to confront - The exact core that defines our postmodern society. Everything is twisted, everything is not as it seems - Dormant and demystified and devoid of hope for future civilization.