The feeling is all too familiar. The dynamics. The jokes. The understanding is there. Of course. We’ve clocked so many hours together. We can finish each other sentences. Finish each others’ jokes. Close our eyes, and we can almost guess the same single digit integer. That’s the power of rapport. That’s the power of a strong bond. Just like uhu glue, it takes 10 seconds to solidify. Time is almost the only constant in everything. To cook good pasta, you need to cook it over slow fire, for 12 minutes. Maggi mee cooks for 2 minutes, but you get shitty nutrients. A good cake gotta be baked under slow heat for 45 minutes.
We live in an era we want everything to be fast. How fast is your internet connection? “it’s fast.” By the numbers, 2 seconds to load the site is ok. 3 feels like an eternity. You turn fidgety. 5, and you start calling singtel. 10 and you wonder if you should change the ISP (Internet service provider) next month. Fast food. The 60 seconds challenge by Mcdonald’s. Remember? And then we gobble, and we ‘wash it down’ with the Coke. Sounds crazy hur. Our grandchildren would say “What? You needed to chew? We just swallow the pill”. We truncate our speeches to single nouns and adjectives, to yes and nos, and we tear the English language apart and make SM Lee tear when we speak our infamous ‘singlish’.
And we want everything next to Now. We have grown so impatient with everything, everybody. Not working out, move. Not doing well, jump. Not feeling great, shift. Not having fun, bounce.
The traffic lights will still wait for its mechanical timer relay, even if we stare hard at it. The lift doesn’t come sooner if we hit the button a few more times. Your old laptop with 512mb of ram wont boot up faster if u sweep the keyboard when the BIOS is loading up. The ice dispenser at Subway will not dispense the ice faster if u push harder.
We need to be more patient. Take kontrol.
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