I want it now!



Yes, I know you all rememeber Veruca.  I used to cringe every time I saw that movie and saw just how spoiled she was…until I saw it again recently and it hit me: this is what our generation has come to.

We’re a generation of instant gratification.  Why should we wait for a letter in the mail and wait a few days when we can just send an email and have it get to our recipient within a few minutes?  Why should we call 10 people and individually invite them to our gathering when we could just send out a group text?  Want to let people know where you are all the time?  Check in on Foursquare and link it to your other social media networks.  We don’t even have dial-up internet anymore…wait, I’m actually happy that we don’t have to deal with this anymore.

 

 

 

Don’t get me wrong, in some cases it saves a lot of time and money but I think all this instant gratification is changing us as humans.  We lack patience.  Like really lack patience.  I found myself complaining in my head when my best friend who’s getting married said that she was going to mail us our bridesmaids invites instead of just asking us via phone.  Granted, I knew that there was a reason behind it, her invite was gorgeous and very creative, but I was like “cut out the middle man and ask me”!  And don’t let me get started on receiving snail mail from businesses!!  I received two W-2’s this year, one was mailed to me and the other was emailed.  You should’ve seen my face when I found out that I had to wait for the one that was mailed to me.

 

 

 

Then there’s the whole Sweet Brown incident. 

 

 

 

We laugh, but this is serious.  Even when we have sites like Pinterest that encourage us to dig into our creative side versus buying any and everything, we have stuff come up like this:

 

 

 

Don’t get me wrong, I too am a victim of this.  I have gotten comfortable to the convience of things now; like having an iPod with over 15k songs on vs a million CDs, having a phone that can just about do anything I want it to (Samsung Galaxy S3), having a Kindle instead vs carrying a few books around at times or having to lug around heavy textbooks.  So yeah, we give into the conveience but at what cost?

 

People hardly have phone conversations anymore.  I’m pointing the finger at myself on this one too.  When Chuck first started courting me (yes, I said ‘courting’) we would have 3 and 4 hour long conversations.  On the phone.  Multiple times a week.  We’d exchange sweet texts too, but it was nice to hear my phone ring and know that I was about to talk to this guy that I was interested in for hours on end about everything under the sun and sometimes nothing at all. 

 

Yeah, my guy’s a talker.  But I like that.  I like that he prefers a phone call vs a text.  Sometimes that extra sense of human interaction is needed.  I don’t need to have a “conversation” with 5 different people via text; I don’t know about y’all but most times I just get confused and have to go back and read threads to remember what was discussed.