I think the majority of people will agree that impatience is a growing problem, even though they're part of the problem themselves. I don't think anybody can really avoid being impatient these days, especially younger people.
We're living in a world where everything is handed to us. My generation was about the last to remember a time without the internet. I still had a computer as a child though. We've grown up accustomed to these things and wouldn't even be able to imagine a place without the world wide web or cell phones. I would die without it!
If I don't get service on my phone for even two minutes I feel panicked and stressed. I feel disconnected from the world and lost, even if I wasn't planning on talking to anyone at that time anyways. Today we need technology to survive. We're dependent on it and it's made us very impatient.
We're used to having everything handed to us. We need constant entertainment to keep us busy. When we don't have it we freak out. We don't know how to be patient and wait for things to come. We get more and more easily irritated and straight up rude if things don't go exactly as planned.
I honestly don't think this problem can be fixed and if it can it would take an extremely long time. I believe we are impatient because of the fast technology we have now. Unless we take technology away from children at a young age and spend more hands on time teaching them like we used to I think it will just get worse and worse.
Maybe if it gets bad enough people will open their eyes more and treat it like going green. Unless it becomes an unbearable problem or a threat to everyone I doubt people will be willing to change.
If you were to travel to another country, would you feel unable to go if you knew you wouldn't get phone service there? I went to Rome with some students last summer, and it was very interesting which students could handle themselves fine without a cell phone, and which ones simply fell apart.
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