Impatience is becoming a growing issue in American society. We can see why it's a problem in a number of areas. For one, relationships have become greatly strained. People often rush into marriage and then become surprised that it didn't work out. This is evidenced by the very high divorce rates that we experience. You can also witness the issue of impatience on the road, full of aggressive drivers in a hurry, leading them to drive like Jason Bourne, constantly swerving in and out of lanes, cutting you off, and honking. You see impatience at the store, with people becoming extremely agitated and bugging their eyes out, even yelling, if they suspect someone might be cutting in line. People can't wait for deals, leading to mad crowds on Black Friday, crowds that undoubtedly end up killing some poor person.
I'm not sure impatience is something we can fix, but it may fix itself. If the economy takes a turn for the worse again, and people are forced to have a better work ethic, impatience may go away. I say this, because I feel that impatience is directly related to laziness. The less lazy people are, the less sense of entitlement people have, the more hard working and courteous they become, at least in my opinion.
I was listening to the book "Freakonomics" while driving to work, and one of the things that the authors bring up is the statistic that women who wait to have children until after they turn 30 generally have children who have higher test scores as students. I thought that it was interesting they were essentially talking about the benefits of waiting to start a family, and we had just been talking about our society's patience in class.
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