Blogs, Digg, Twitter — my entire day revolves around getting the news and having dialog with my friends at an instantaneous rate. I rarely ever sit down and watch TV by channel surfing, all of my favorite shows are recorded on my DVR so I can fast forward through the commercials and get on to the next segment of Iron Chef America as fast as possible. As it becomes easier and easier to achieve this, I’ve been thinking about the evolution of our need for instant gratification.

I’ve got this idea for a blog, mostly as a hobby but definitely something that I’d want to spend some time on and see become successful. The reason I haven’t gotten it together yet is because I don’t have the patience to work on it diligently and at a steady pace, piecing things together until it all falls into place. I don’t mean to come off as a brat because I don’t always get what I want, but I am very used to getting things I want immediately. With a lot of things going on in my life (work, school, family, friends) it’s hard to deal with all of the pressures and not slow down a bit to work on this one thing that I’m really interested in.

Something I’ve noticed is the change in how people conduct relationships with their loved ones. A great example is when you are overwhelmed with happiness about someone you are infatuated with. You spend the majority of your day with this person and the time spent without them you are constantly thinking about them. Yet, when someone else enters your life, a love interest, you fall for them, smack dab, right there with no looking back. Why is it that people will ruin a good thing and self defeat themselves to instantly jump for something that is right in front of their face here and now?

This is a good way to live in certain contexts; jumping at business opportunities, making a last minute decision on where to eat dinner, but shouldn’t be taken for granted. We need to slow down, I NEED to slow down. I spend the majority of my weekday in front of a computer, for work reasons, and when I’m out I check my e-mail and Twitter on my BlackBerry. Lately, I really feel like I need to cut myself loose. I’m traveling to Israel for 10 days in May and plan to stay as far away from a computer as possible but it can’t come soon enough. I think I may consider taking a weekend to completely unplug but it’s going to be very hard to do. I’ll keep you posted.