Hasty decision do more harm than good. So when you’re face with the pressure of making a decision at the 11th hour, you cannot always expect a positive turnout. If you’re lucky, then it may result to something you might want to celebrate; if not, then… don’t be surprised. Impatience is the main culprit for all hasty decisions; that nagging voice in your head telling you to buy that pair of red shoes because it’s on sale and if you get a second pair, it’s already free.
Consumerism has plagued this society.
And I’m not just talking about shoes.
Over Thanksgiving Dinner, the discussion moved from temper tantrums to Black Friday, and how crazy people can get to fight over a $500 flat screen television. Question is: do you really need that idiot box in the first place?
A recent study published in the Child Development journal noted the disruptive effects of television to children’s playtime. Although “small”, these effects are real. Take these numbers: when the TV was on, kids played for about 30 seconds, on average with a given toy. Without TV, it was 60 seconds. Some psychologists worry about the cumulative effect as the daily play disruptions add up to weeks and months.
At home, we try to limit video exposure to two hours and it’s mostly about Sesame Street, nursery rhymes, and Winnie the Pooh. I digress sometimes especially when there is so much household chores to be accomplished and Disney seems to be the only babysitter within my reach. Most of the time, I’m too impatient to be patient.
Impatience is also another reason why relationships fail.
People are just too comfortable in getting immediate results; waiting seems to be a thing of the past. While the men and women of days gone by waited weeks and months and even years to get letters from each other, today’s generation are spoiled with gadgets and gizmos – supposedly considered as communication tools to make conversations more convenient and faster. But… are they meaningful?
How many of you prefer homecooked meals to fastfood? Mommy’s fried chicken versus KFC? Daddy’s homemade burger patties versus Burger King? Grandma’s old-fashioned apple pie versus some store-bought, mass-produced, pre-packaged, sugar-bathed crust?
People are impatient because they can’t afford to wait. The value of waiting is fading in the background…fast! Very few people are willing to wait. Some don’t wait because of necessity; others can’t wait because they’re just the entitled ones who feel that they deserve to be first in line.
I’m rambling.
I’m waiting for this baby to fall asleep as I think about this one more paper I need to finish for grad school – and then, this semester is over.
I should be done if this baby falls asleep.
I’m getting impatient.
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T30WC or The 30-minute Writing Challenge is a writing exercise born out of this blogger’s need to maintain a habit of writing. Subjects of each writing challenge is just about anything but should ONLY be written within 30 minutes.
