Part 1: The Wait Is Sometimes the Hardest Part It’s 10:57 p.m. You’ve checked your phone for the fifth time in ten minutes. The message still hasn’t arrived. Maybe it’s your exam results. Maybe it’s the outcome of a scholarship interview. Maybe you’re waiting for a friend to reply after a difficult conversation, or for a doctor to call with test results. Nothing has happened yet. And somehow, that feels unbearable. You replay every possible scenario in your mind. What if I fa