Oooh ... patience

I dont know if I can consider myself patient. Patience seems to be a lost art nowadays, at least on my part.

We want eveything now and we want everything fast. We live in a constant state of instant gratification and bitch and complain if things are not done the way we want. Where has our patience gone? Has it become the lost art?

I first noticed this social phenomenon and I started to look around my world and noticed that this was happening everywere. We talk faster, listen less and then wonder why nobody ever calls. Dropping an e-mail will never be as personal as a simple card that has a picture inside. Of course, we could scan the picture (editing out any wrinkles using photo software), add it as an attachment, post the email (send to more than one family member at a time to save typing!) and check later to see if they got it. Where did all the phone calls go?

We need to slow down. We are living longer lives, but no-one told us how to make them more full-filling. Busy work does not mean happy work and doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff will only come back to haunt us when we lament that we didn't take more time for our friends and family - one of my failures.

I want to learn the the ability to endure waiting without becoming annoyed or upset.

To you, I will try to be patient in my waiting.