WHEN I come home from any event that I have ever attended with the philosophy of writing a blogpost on it, I am one of many that has to run to the laptop rushing to be the first to tell people about it.
Rushing to jump into that short time frame of people’s attention span. What happened to living in the now, eh?
People’s attention spans have become so short because we are used to getting things so quickly. We can usually just get everything at the click of a button, a fact that was not true twenty years ago, or so I am told.
The truth is, you don’t need a dictionary anymore, you have google translate.
You don’t need to record something on the TV anymore because you can just watch it on YouTube. You don’t need to go into town shopping anymore, you can just get all the clothes that you want in the click of a button and they arrive at your door.
Even when you are reading this, you have clicked on a link and in a moment, you have joined me on this page. (Not that I am telling you to stop clicking on this website. You know it’s awesome!)
Anyway, when the world of the internet is so quick and so easy to use, how are we supposed to deal in the real world?
No wonder that we complain when there is a queue at Starbucks, we just aren’t used to the concept of waiting anymore when we spend so much time on our phones and computers. When planning anything, we always think of the fastest way to do it.
Even the beauty of window shopping has been destroyed, as we have to fit into certain timezones so that it doesn’t get too crowded and there may be the possibility in any delay in our lives.
When the internet stops working I know that we all have a heart attack because we actually have to get up to see what is wrong with it. When anything takes a second longer than it is supposed to, we scream and whine until it is ready again.
If we have become this impatient because of the simple speed of the broadband, how are supposed to cope when the hoverboards arrive? We will all just be flying around at top speed not taking in the day anymore.
I know that I am not exactly a role model for smelling the roses, but I never want to get so caught up in the fast-paced world that we live in, to never even consider it.
So, after that speech on how we shouldn’t rush through life, you would think that I would have some amazing motto to sum it all up, and you would be right.
Take a chill pill. (I told you it was amazing)
Honestly though I think that we should all just stop just going for the instant option just because it is easy. If the instant option was possible for writing articles like this, I wouldn’t take it, because it truly defeats the purpose of the whole thing.
So the next time that the latest gossip doesn’t appear on your newsfeed five seconds after the event has occurred; take a deep breath, grab an imaginary glass of water and that imaginary amazing chill pill that we discussed.
Because just because it isn’t instant, doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth waiting for.