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0 of 3 Premium Clicks used this month SUBSCRIBE Print + Online Subscriber Activation | Register x Forgot Password | Need an Account? e-edition | subscribe | newsletter | deals Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » NEWS NOW Since You Asked: Pedestrians can be cited for carelessness ... Wolf once believed to be dead shows up near Crater Lake ... One of Oregon's two health insurance co-ops says it will shut down ... Since You Asked: Pedestrians can be cited for carelessness ... Wolf once believed to be dead shows up near Crater Lake ... One of Oregon's two health insurance co-ops says it will shut down ... Get A Life: Don't be in such a hurry Comment By Loretta LaRoche More Content Now MailTribune.com By Loretta LaRoche More Content Now Posted Mar. 2, 2015 at 7:19 AM Updated Mar 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM By Loretta LaRoche More Content Now Posted Mar. 2, 2015 at 7:19 AM Updated Mar 2, 2015 at 7:20 AM » Social News I’m always amused by how impatient everyone has become. No one wants to wait for anything anymore. Merchants are trying to provide services as quickly as possible, yet people still complain when it takes more than five minutes to get a burger and fries. In fact, this whole thing began with the concept of “fast food.” We became enthralled with the ability to get an entire meal in less than the hour or so it would have taken in a restaurant. Now that most people’s lives have become nothing more than an endless to-do list, every retailer imaginable has gotten on the bandwagon, and God forbid if it takes more than 30 seconds to accomplish anything. You can get your dry cleaning done in less than 24 hours — even though it may have the dirt of 20 years embedded in the material. Your eyeglass prescription can also be filled in 20 minutes. Cholesterol screening takes five minutes — and you can have it done while you’re training your dog not to poop on the rug. You can have your thighs reshaped during lunch, and your breasts lifted while you’re having dinner. If that’s not to your liking, you can have a mini-tuck at your local gas station while you’re filling your tank and buying groceries. You can do psychotherapy while driving to work — you merely pick up your therapist and take him with you. They pick your brain while you pick on the other drivers who aren’t going fast enough to suit your accelerated mind. Television screens now come with screens within screens so we can watch two shows at once. We spend our lives clicking away, erasing voice mails or responding to them and texts. Who cares if we miss something. It has become more fashionable to multi-task rather than to do one thing at a time and do it well. We don’t want to waste any time — we’re much too important! Let’s hurry up and get rid of all this mundane stuff so we can get on with more important stuff. Like what? The reality is, of course, that whatever we’re doing at any given moment is, in fact, our life! We do not get do-overs. There is no repeat performance. The “hurry up” mentality has taken over our culture. But the bottom line is not everyone is a paramedic. Life is not merely a plethora of emergencies that must be handled immediately. Slowing down in order to smell the roses has great meaning for the mind/body and spirit. Life is meant to be savored and reflected upon. If we simply speed past the moments of our lives we have never really lived them. Author, humorist, PBS star and Fortune 500 trainer Loretta LaRoche lives in Plymouth, Massachusetts. To share your pet peeves, questions or comments, write to The Humor Potential, 50 Court St., Plymouth, MA 02360. Visit her website at stressed.com . 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