Happy Tuesday to my #web3 family and I wish you a blissful week.
Looking at this beautiful topic before you, might have made you rolled your eyes but don’t be mad at me yet… im not tryna displace convenience or make comfortability seem less important to humanity, at least that’s one major bane or trump card of technology and modern civilization.
Technology has made things in life Ai easy and super fast that we now skip a lot of processes, gratitudes and most importantly moments that we should have experienced.
As we all know, anything with an advantage must have a disadvantage, it’s just an existential phenomenon in life, we can’t beat or avoid it. I can boldly say that modern life has become incredibly convenient in so many ways and diverse ramifications, no one can deny that fact and it is a major advantage.
Most of us that are born into this era of technological convenience can testify that we live an easier life when we look at the lives of our parents, fore fathers, ancestors, especially when they tell us their stories.
We can also see how fast it evolves in our own time/dispensation, from the era of fax machines to computers and now we have iPhone 17s lol. We live in an era where unlike before Food arrives in minutes, information appears instantly and communication happens almost immediately.
Now like I said before it’s always more than how we see it because it has impacts on us in other ways. While these developments have improved many aspects of life, they have also brought a change in how people deal with waiting. This is one very important aspect of the disadvantages of speed. Patience used to be built into everyday experiences without a special script or compelling.
In those days people waited for letters, stood in lines, saved money for purchases and accepted that some things simply took time. It somehow inculcated the culture and idea of doing things one at a time and made people appreciate the value of taking one step at a time but today, many people become frustrated when a website takes a few extra seconds to load or when a response doesn’t arrive immediately, isn’t that crazy? Now we are so entitled to speed that we can’t overlook some little things anymore, automatically our spirit of patience is diminishing and we don’t see it but instead we think the other party is not adapted enough to the modern world meanwhile its us who don’t have patience anymore.
If you look at the world closely and deeply today, you’d notice that we fight over irrelevances and our sudden lack of patience has made conflict and wars easier.
We forget that patience itself is a life skill that our ancestors have passed on to us based on their experience and philosophy about life, we shouldn’t toil with patience for any reason tho we all agree that convenience is a good thing and one reason we all struggle to earn what we get but still if we don’t practice the culture we can’t pass it on to our generations like our ancestors did to us and what does that mean?
We are building a more deficient world where patience wouldn’t exist anymore The interesting question is whether convenience is improving life while quietly reducing our ability to tolerate delay and with time we won’t be able to tolerate things or one another like we should.
Patience has always been connected to discipline, emotional control and longterm thinking so now if everything becomes instant, what happens to those skills?
Thank you for reading
SAINT HEROD
