Nowadays more and more people want to get things done instantly (services, information, tasks). Why is this? Do you think it is a positive or negative development?

In our modern society, many things which may have taken our parents hours, or even days, to complete, we expect to be achieved with near instant speed. The causes of

this

shift are driven by a growing scarcity of free

time

, created by

longer

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long

work

hours and a wider range of tasks to complete. I believe that

this

expectation for things to be completed rapidly is not necessarily a bad thing,

however

the reasons why we expect them to be done quickly is. The main reason for why we expect things to occur in a short

timespan

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time span

is that people

work

longer hours, making their spare

time

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times

scarcer. Additional hours spent at

work

mean there are fewer available to accomplish personal tasks, driving a preference for faster completion.

For example

, it is normal in many jobs for one to

work

beyond the standard 37 hour

work

week. I usually

work

from 40 to 60 hours each week. With fewer hours to spend waiting for services to be completed, or to receive information updates, we, as a people, tend to select speed over most else.

This

drive for expediency created by

time

poverty definitely seems like a negative byproduct of our busy lives.

In addition

to having less personal

time

, it seems that people have more things to do in general. Our modern lives carry all of the demands of the previous generation,

however there

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however, there

are now

also

social media, fitness classes, taking children to multiple activities, etc. Given that we have more tasks to complete in less

time

, the expectation is that these items should be done faster,

otherwise

one is faced with a mathematical impossibility. Leading busier lives combined with less free

time

leads to an expectation for tasks to be done as quickly as possible, in order to make

time

for those tasks which are enjoyable. Unlike the issue of longer

work

hours,

however

, the amount of tasks to complete can be pared down if we wisely prioritise what really matters in our lives. As a modern society, we have grown to expect certain services, information and tasks to be completed near instantly. The reasons why we expect

this

rapid task completion,

however

, are definitely negative, as they stem from an increasing number of priorities competing for fewer leisure hours. I believe that while it is good that certain services can be completed quickly, we should look at where our priorities lie, and attempt to balance our

work

lives with our personal lives more effectively.