You’re mad the video buffered for four seconds. Your grandparents waited weeks for a letter.

Irritation calibrates itself to the fastest thing you have access to. When most things arrive instantly, four seconds registers as an actual delay, and that is not a defect in you, it is how the setting gets adjusted. The trouble is that the same setting follows you into places where waiting is unavoidable: learning something, getting over something, waiting on a reply from a person with a life of their own.

Practice one deliberate wait this week. Let something load without opening a second tab. Sit through a boring five minutes without reaching for anything. You are stretching a range you will need later.