Patience is a virtue...for those on dial-up

Is technology and our ever increasing desire for faster everything, making us lose patience? We seem to live in a world where we assume everything can be done in the blink of a virtual eye - or at least perhaps I do.

Today is a perfect example for me. Recently I was given a cheque (that's a "check" for the American readers) - which as we all know are fading away with the revolution that is online banking. I went to the bank to deposit it only to find I had to fill in a deposit slip with God knows how many different parts to it. For some unknown reason I became very frustrated at having to go through this process and also at the person who wrote the cheque for making me go through this torment, even though in reality it didn't take me a huge amount of time to complete.

When most other things in our lives appear to be accomplished with relative ease/speed it simply highlights the things that seem to take a long time (when in fact they've probably always taken that long, but it's never been noticed until everything else sped up).

As our lives get more and more used to having so much "on demand" it's more likely that we will begin to ignore things/processes etc. that take that little bit longer to get/do because we will be frustrated by the amount of time we have to wait for them. Perhaps this is a good thing, perhaps not. Only time will tell.