to wait

I’m impatient. We are impatient.

I want it now. I don’t want to wait to hear back from you; wait to get somewhere; wait for the weekend. We want everything now.

But is it really that important?

Not so very long ago people waited and were perfectly fine with it because that’s what they had always done. I sometimes feel that if I don’t get the answer now, the information now, solve the problem now then things will not be right. But in most instances waiting will not hurt anything. Sometimes it improves the situation.

I’m learning to slow down and wait. And it’s not the horrible lesson that I thought it would be.