Timing is Everything.

We Americans are something else, aren't we?

Out of all the countries in the world, we are the top whiners. We whine about things we already have, problems that aren't really problems, issues and shortcomings that would be considered successes in any other part of the globe.

Personally, I blame the Dollar Menu.

Seriously, if you think about it, McDonald's can be blamed for a lot of things. (And I'm not saying this because my midsection is slowly expanding...) Because of this instant gratification prescription that we've given ourselves, we are in a mode of getting what we want, when we want it. Which is usually NOW.

Apparently, this is nothing new.

Remember being a kid, and watching all the "big kids", wishing that the growth process would just hurry up already HAPPEN? Remember being a young-buck, waiting for the hair to grow on your upper lip/chest/et cetera, wondering why in the heck it was taking so long? And it doesn't even stop there...

Remember when you were on Apple's website the other day, staring lustily at that new MacBook Air, wishing that someone in the payroom would just make one little mistake on your paycheck and add one little zero?

There are so many instances in our lives that we tend to want to rush for. We want so much to happen to us, when things usually tend to happen in their own time. I also know this emcee who put in such a neat way:

You rush to get to the top
so you clawing away
You rush to get to that job
you hate more every day
You rush to pick up your order
rush to eat, but you tired
Rush to get you a quarter
'fore your meter expire
You rush to give him them drawz
Cuz he rushed you to hit it
You did it
Now ya'll fussing while you rush to the clinic...

We rush to get a car, we rush to have sex, we rush to move out of our parents' houses, we are in such a huge panic to get somewhere that's not really...going...anywhere.

And I know this Great Guy who said that there is a time for everything. Indeed, it is. No rush to the poon, the opportunity to lay the pipe will present itself, most likely in a better set of circumstances. No rush to getting that new whip, because chances are, there will be a newer, better (faster, stronger) car that will be coming out soon.

Granted, it's really hard to just...wait. But sometimes...that's the quickest, easiest route to living a better life.

Besides, some of the best conversations take place in the car on the way to Mickey D's.