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Half The Time To Change Still Feels Too Long
The challenges of living in a quick-fix society.
The upside and downside of today’s world is its speed. What took several minutes a century ago is virtually instantaneous now. Food that took hours to cook can be made in minutes. The convenience is astonishing.
However, it has also devastated attention spans. People used to accept that things took time way more readily than we do now. We want it instantly, as soon as possible — if not sooner.
What’s more, quick fixes are all too attractive. The idea that a pill can make you thin, another can alleviate all your anxiety and depression, with no additional work like minding diet and exercise or seeing a therapist, is the preferred option.
Yet we forget that to get where we are, right now, was the product of time. Nobody has reached anywhere with success or failure instantly. Time, energy, and work went into it.
That’s why change in half the time (or less) that it took to get from “A” to “B” still feels too long.
Rome wasn’t built in a day
Yes, this is super cliché. Yet it’s the truth. You can’t build a city in a day.
I didn’t become overweight instantly. This is the product of years of unideal food…
