I’m a pretty impatient person. At least, I am now. As a kid, I was always the last in my family for everything, as my mom would say “littles first” no matter what it was. This meant that anything (at least anything good) was done or handed out by age, starting with the youngest – so I was consistently dead last as the eldest child. Mum insisted on doing this as she bemoaned that the younger ones would cry if they had to wait a mere second. It sucked, and still does, as this taught my youngest siblings to not have any patience, even now as adults. I’ve noticed how their careers have been impacted and it bugs the hell out of me.
But it wasn’t just at home. It seemed adults were always telling me to wait for this and that when I was young. I imagine that’s pretty typical, but it sure feels like I got to wait more than others. I remember a class where I patiently waited the entire period as the teacher never did get back to me. He lauded me for how good I was about it, but even so… it’s not like it wasn’t hard for me – an hour wasted, standing and bored out of my mind. I just wanted to do my best, and that meant following what I was told.
So now I feel like whatever patience I was allotted for my lifetime was already used up in my childhood. I don’t sit by the window expecting Amazon packages to appear immediately after I click the order button or anything like that, but with how fast things, such as the internet can be, when they take longer than usual I do start to get annoyed…
And thus I’m sitting here writing this as a means to get my irritated mind off of waiting for ChatGPT to generate an image, lol!