We constantly have to wait, for the next bus and the great love, for a message or a new beginning. Each time the standstill is a test, because as modern people we never have one thing, of course: time. Those who get everything without delay are considered privileged. But at what price? Isn't it precisely in waiting that happiness lies? "If you don't master the art of waiting, you also lose composure - and anticipation," says Timo Reuter. He sees waiting as a grain of sand in the gears of the non-stop exploitation machine. And as an opportunity to open up new spaces for ourselves. In his book, full of entertaining stories and astonishing insights, he examines the political content of waiting, its subversive potential, and the delightful power of doing nothing, of leisure, and of lingering. Just in time, everything immediately and always on the move - it is high time for a new culture of waiting that resists the frenzy of acceleration!