You Don't Become Patient. You Just Get Less Impatient.

Everything moves fast now. Same-day delivery. Instant answers. A news cycle that's already onto the next thing before the first one has finished. We've built an entire civilisation around the elimination of waiting, and somewhere along the way we forgot that some things can't be rushed. Not because the technology isn't there. Because the thing itself requires time. Epictetus put it plainly: No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. Let it first blossom,...