Farid’s Well of Waiting: Drawing Sweetness from Time
Farid’s Well of Waiting: Drawing Sweetness from Time Most people fear waiting. We treat it as interruption, delay, inefficiency. But Baba Farid saw waiting differently. To him, waiting was not empty time — it was deep time . Not a pause in life, but a descent into it. He compared waiting to drawing water from a well. The sweetness is not at the surface. You must lower the bucket, feel the rope strain, and trust that what you cannot see is still there. Waiting, he taught, is how the soul learns depth. For Baba Farid , waiting was not passive. It was participation with time itself. He understood that impatience is often disguised fear — fear that life will not deliver what we desire. But he also knew that time ripens what force cannot. We live in an age allergic to delay. Gen Z is promised instant impact. Millennials measure growth in rapid milestones. Gen X carries timelines like ticking clocks. Everything must accelerate. Everything must arrive now. Baba Farid stood in...
