Delay of Gratification
Posted By admin on September 19, 2011
I’m a patient woman. I don’t usually notice crying children in restaurants/on planes until someone else (naming no names) gives me the squirrely-eyed, help-me-escape look. I can explain how to restore all the programs my beloved deletes from his phone without getting testy because I’ve told him how to restore them forty times before. (His feeling is, if I explain while he does the steps, he’ll remember how to do them next time. Even that doesn’t make me testy–I find it a little endearing.) I don’t even get too bothered by traffic as long as I’m not running late. (Due to some crazy-driving years in my day job, I fear.)
But I’m not good at waiting for a new gadget. I love gadgets. When I pack for a trip, my family mocks me for my collection of charging cords, and even I can see it’s not a pretty addiction. My laptop has been failing for some time, but I really didn’t want to buy a new one. I think I have some sort of Calvinistic bent. I can agree with my shopper husband when he starts looking around, “You’ve had that bike or those golf clubs or that car for X number of years. Maybe it is time for a new one.” But I never seem to feel the same about my own stuff. In fact, I tend to wait for a new laptop (my most vital working tool, by the way!) until I have no choice. And I travel quite a bit, so my laptops take something of a beating.
However, the beloved took pity and ordered a new laptop for me. Yay!
It won’t even ship for at least another week.
I am in pain!
Imagine–knowing you wouldn’t have to wait 15 minutes for a file to load, or force your programs to quit because they no longer obey their own menu commands–or wait literally 20 minutes for a webpage to load. Plus, OS software has changed in the past 4.5 years. I’ve updated mine along the way, but there’s a new update I’m eager to see. I love gadgets, and a laptop is a big old gadget! I probably wouldn’t have mentioned this in a blog post, but my beautiful new laptop isn’t shipping for some time, and I’m not good at delay of gratification.
However–I do love anticipation… Life is a conundrum!
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