Rushed times!

[ZenitYerkes]

May, 1960
"Hey Jack would you send me that in a parcel when you're in Alabama?"
"Sure, it'll be in your mailbox by the next week"
"Alright Jack, see you when you're back then"

May, 2010
"Hey Jack would you send me that in a parcel when you're in Alabama?"
"Sure, it'll be in your mailbox by the next week"
"Next week!? You're kidding me! I can't wait that long!"
"..."

We can't wait.

For nothing.

Things were slower time ago, you know. If you wanted something from outside your country you had to wait for at least three weeks or two months perhaps. Now you can have products from China and Italy from the shop around the corner. You had to wait for a letter from your penfriend when you both were separated by a large distance: now we've got the Internet to connect people in seconds.

At work you had several weeks to get the difficult work done (no PCs and no quick means of transport), now it has to be a matter of days, even hours. And if you ordered anything outside your town, you had to wait several days until it was at the local shops: now you've got anything you want here, at the moment.

We want everything and we want it now.

And we later rant about stress...

Oh well, call it the price of progress.