CNN.com - U.S. is an impatient nation, poll finds

CNN.com - U.S. is an impatient nation, poll finds

From the article...

And it seems people don't mellow with age. The survey found older people to
be more impatient than younger people.

Curious.

Back to the general population, is this impatience about us being too busy? Is there too much to do? Are there too many of us?

I actually can remember when the U. S. population was less than 150 million - about half what it is today. It did seem to make things more relaxed and less crowded overall. Unless, of course, you were in the thick of a major city.

We definitely are busier than we used to be. It's not that people worked less in the past; it's more that life was simpler - less multi-tasking, as well as less to do.

Factor in, also, that when we had only 150 million people two-income households and single parents were rare. Mom stayed home and took care of home, family, and household chores. Dad went out and made the money and did "Dad" chores on the weekend - cut the grass, fix things, paint the house, etc. As a result, the family's workload was spread out between two people. A lifestyle rare nowadays - for better and for worse.