What are you waiting for?

Your internal monologue could make this question sound quite bullish, but there's another way of deciphering it...

If you’re familiar with team sports, you may read that question as a spur from the coach. There’s a ball that needs to be passed, shot, landed. ‘What are you waiting for?!’ is a yell of frustration about something you should, perhaps, already be doing. However, if you have had any kind of therapy or a kind ear lent by a friend or family member, ‘What ar…