Hung Up In a Prikle-ly Perch

Today I was reading through some blogs when I happened upon this this familiar 

sentence by Dr. Seuss:

You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled 

roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish 

wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.

The Waiting Place…for people just waiting

I've read "Oh! The Places You'll Go" several times, but not in many years, and 

definitely not while in the midst of TTC. It's almost eery how perfectly this 

sentence captured the way I have been feeling for for the past two years. Confused, 

scattered, running down paths I'd never thought I would travel, paths that lead 

to more paths, or worse, dead ends. The Waiting Place, it's where I have been 

living, nothing seems to be as important as what I am waiting for, everything 

seems to pale in comparison to having a baby. I have been so busy waiting for 

my family to arrive that I have not been enjoying what I have right now. 

I really REALLY do want to enjoy what I have right now, I DO!!! I am a lucky girl, 

with a great job, a nice condo, a lovely hubby, but all that seems to matter to me 

is making a baby. Will I only "truly" be happy when I have a baby? or could I be 

happy here and now if I just got off of my prikle-ly perch?

This sentence captured my whole being so well that I could not resist the urge to 

post it on Facebook. Every once and a while I put a truthful posting on Facebook, 

one that states how I really feel. Very rarely do I get a response, I think people get 

confused when there are postings about something other then babies and pregnancy. 

Today was a different story though, a very close friend of mine posted this in 

response:

Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and staying. You’ll find 

the bright places where Boom Bands are playing. With banner 

flip-flapping, once more you’ll ride high! Ready for anything 

under the sky. Ready because you’re that kind of a guy! or (girl!)

It was the most perfect and lovely response, I felt for the first time in a long time 

that somebody out there (outside of blog world) was listening to how I felt, AND 

that someone cared enough to respond. The strange thing is, this kinda woke me up, 

I have been so high upon this perch that I totally forgot the next part of the story. 

I forgot that somehow I will escape all this waiting and staying, that one day I will 

be on the other side of all this. 

I know this book was not written specifically for those of us trying desperately to 

start a family, but I think it applies to just about every challenge in life. I know in

my own life I can look back on many times where I was stuck in The Waiting 

Place, thinking I would never escape. I did though, everytime......and I will this

time too! One day the boom bands will be playing for me.