Fast internet trained us to hate waiting. Real life still runs on the old speed.

Instant results in one part of life reset your expectations for all of it. A page loads in half a second, so three weeks for a reply starts to feel like a malfunction, when three weeks is simply how long decisions involving people take. Bodies, skills, friendships and healing have not changed their speeds at all.

Catch yourself applying internet expectations to something human. Then set the timeline the thing actually has: a month to hear back, a year to get good, a season to get fit. Most of the frustration comes from the gap between a real timeline and an invented one.