Instant Society

It has truly hit home for me, how much our lives depend on technology - and speed of delivery.

back before texts ( and emails, for that matter) if you didn't have a phone of some sort, then you would have to wait days, weeks at a time before receiving a reply from your friend who lives on the other side of the country.

Yet nowadays; people get annoyed, frustrated if their Facebook page doesn't load within 30 seconds?

 And all they really want to do is see what people they don't really care about are doing with their pet rock.

It was driven into my head the other day, during geography class; My teacher was trying to open a Powerpoint presentation on an old school computer. She started getting frustrated literally, after about 20 seconds because it was still loading.

we've become and instant society - if what we want isn't delivered in the blink of an eye, we begin to complain about things being 'slow'.  If you really want to know what slow is,  go back in time and live even 50 years before now. Then you will know what slow is. If you weren't fortunate enough to have a car to go and see people, then you had the gnawing wait before your letter would arrive. Then the same, sending away your reply.

We need to stop being so dependant on speed on things - time may be of the essence, however the wait can make the end product that little more enjoyable.