Patience is something Americans desperately need to learn.

I'm not even quite sure how to begin this post.

I always thought I had very little patience.I simply cannot stand to be forced to wait for anything and I get bored rather easily. But even I understand that there are some things that just take time. Things that you simply cannot rush, no matter how much you try.

One of the things that is frustrating to me about living in the United States is that the culture has perpetuated this intense belief that EVERYTHING HAS TO HAPPEN RIGHT THIS SECOND. Its like most of the population has lost their capacity for patience.

Now I won't say that doesn't happen back in Canada, of course it does, but its just so much more pronounced in the United States.

One of those things is the government. Unless its a life-or-death-be-bombed instance, there's little to no chance of the government moving quickly on anything, no matter how you try. Thats why some people (like President Obama) push so hard to get things done but seldom succeed in it.

Time. We humans have very little of it, but we have more than most. There are animals out there that live only hours or days to breed and die out there. And there are animals that can live hundreds of years. We humans fall somewhere in the middle, so where did this "it must happen NOW or not happen at all" mentality come from.

This is the mindset of a child, not of an adult. Adults are supposed to have the capacity to understand that some things take time. A child should not be in control of anything because they are children. Americans, its time to grow up and learn that things take time. That includes the economic recovery, and the creation of a health care bill thats going to change the way of life for every American in the country.

The Government cannot say "The health care bill will be finished for good, with no need for change, on December 13, 2009". Thats not life. Thats not the way the world works. Things happen. For all we know, we'll suffer terrorist attacks, for all we know, the H1N1 will mutate and begin killing thousands of Americans in weeks decimating the population, for all we know, we'll all just suddenly drop dead of no known cause. They simply cannot give a definite answer. So "we hope to have it done sometime this year" IS a valid answer. To give a definite date would totally screw them if they were proven wrong for any reason at all even if the reason was that a nuclear bomb destroyed the White House.

Star Wars gave us a great quote... "Only Sith deal in absolutes". In this case, it would be "Only fools and children deal in absolutes". This is life, it is not a fantasy and so the second saying would apply.

Patience, young Padawan.