We are all losing the battle of patience.
Incessantly track the food delivery guy. Snatch the order from the delivery guy without seeing his face. Then slam the door before he says “Enjoy your meal, give me a rating”.
You get a peculiar uneasiness while waiting for an OTP before you do a transaction.
Celebrate when Amazon under-commits and over-delivers your face wash.
Reprimand the security fellow for requesting you to open the car trunk at the mall entry gate. Then throw your hands in the air and deny it anyway because you are getting late for the movies. Only to realize that you have to sit through the cancer ads for eternity.
Wonder why the recipient hasn’t seen your message. No blue ticks yet.
Keep on checking on the stock price that hasn’t appreciated much since you bought it. Curse your fate.
We are clearly losing patience. It is a learned behavior.
There is an immense value attached to “now”
Is Patience a virtue or an inadequacy?
Trivia: Patience originates from a Latin word “To Suffer” (patiencia)
What do you think?
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