Our obsession is everywhere. McDonald’s. Starbucks. Car-pool lanes. Debit cards and Pay-at-the-Pump. Online registration. TiVo and DVR. Texting, IM’ing, and Facebooking. Auto withdraws, ATMs, and drive-thru oil changes. We continue on with online renewals, online classes, and online banking. It gets worse with online schooling, camera patrolled intersections, and interactive video games. We love Ebay, Craigslist, and the classifieds, to name a few, and we get our news in 30 seconds from MSN, Yahoo, and People Weekly online. We are on Twitter and Myspace and blog for ourselves. The list could go on… and on… and on…. Period.

My confession of the month is that I’m guilty. I expect things done yesterday. I even found myself getting annoyed with the police officer recently for not writing my ticket quickly enough (the nerve of him wasting my valuable time!)! My fast food better be fast(!) and tasty(!) or I’ll be forced to throw a fit! And don’t even think about me having to stand in line at the “convenience” store - I’ll have none of it!

The moral of my story is quite simple: it isn’t worth it. It’s not worth giving in to our modern pace of life, only to have a heart attack and be regrettful. It isn’t worth my relationships, my health, and certainly not my limited sanity.

Our fast-food society is just that - on a fast-food pace. Assuming I can make my own decisions, and I believe I can, I would prefer to dine in. How about you?