Big city woes is something you typically hear from someone living in Toronto, Edmonton, or Vancouver.
For me, I’ve always been a small-town boy at heart. There’s something so perfect about driving down the road, which only takes a couple of minutes to get to that coffee shop to get your morning cup.
Now don’t get me wrong, it’s only about a 20-minute total trip since moving to Lloydminster for me to get that cup but it’s had me thinking. Am I really a small-town by at heart or am I just impatient?
I’ve found myself getting more and more impatient over the years as I’ve started to age. Soon my age will start with a 3, a terrifying prospect I know, but I feel as though I’ve been getting more and more impatient.
I sit waiting at a light in town for maybe a minute and it feels like it drags out for an eternity. I don’t think travel in a town the size of Lloydminster’s takes too long, it’s simply I am far too impatient to wait.
Now this makes me circle back and think where did it all go wrong? Where in my journey did I become so impatient? Once upon a time I could wait hours for something, even days. Now I look at a five-minute wait as pure torture.
Well, I think over the next few weeks I’m going to try to slow down and smell the roses… so to speak. Instead of thinking about the time slowly ticking by I’m just going to stop and appreciate the moments. The beautiful skies, the rolling hills, the endless trees, I think it’s about time I slow down a second, life goes too fast as it is.
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