Every morning I wake up to the rich aroma taste of the instant coffee. Packed in 3-in-1 regular Nescafe classic, a cup of it jump start the day with extra excitement. In this fast paced world, everything has to be fast. The window of opportunity comes and goes in split of seconds. Like the other day when I passed by MRR2 on my way home, which the route that I often use. I came across a large billboard displaying 2 cups of coffee and a saucer. It forms a smiley face. It was an advertisement of a instant coffee. A 3-in-1 coffee.
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Our lives had become instant society. We had instant noodles. Instant coffee. Instant messaging. Instant picture. Instant this and instant that. Everything seems come with a shortcut. 3 minutes ready instant noodle. You no longer need to wait for another day just to get your noodle. Omit the hassle to get the ingredients to prepare a meal. Just add hot water. The instant mentality that caused us to be fast, immediate effect. Like cooking. To shorten the time, we use microwave. Instant. The next minute the food is ready to be served.
We are like chasing the time. Endlessly. Even in the relationship that is has been shortcut in a way. Instant relationship. The transition between the unknown – to friend and then to couple is instant. People take the form of instant mentality. No longer being patience with the things we do. Either in every single aspect of our lives. So, what does that makes us? We enjoy instant gratification instead of the delay gratification. Like the old sayings “Susah susah dahulu, senang senang kemudian” – let there be trials and tribulations so we could enjoy the fruit of labor in the later days.
To borrow the excerpt from the site here:-
“The ‘instant’ mentality is problematic. When you don’t get instant satisfaction, many people give up and turn away, creating a lot of instability in their lives.” For Gouder, marriage here is on a losing end as the ‘instant’ mentality gains ground:
“Around 20 per cent of people change their jobs. The politicians on one side say this is positive, others negative, but what could be really happening? The truth is that today’s mentality is that ‘nothing is permanent.’ This affects marriage as well, when people start doubting whether the word they gave their wife was permanent.
How we are going to address such issue in our society….
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