I was driving home from work today, and I was thinking about getting a new cell phone. My cell phone is not broken, but it is a couple years old and it has been well used. I am wrestling with being locked into a contract again, which I really don't like. As I was thinking about this and driving, I was weighing the pros and cons of having a cell phone. How did we get by without them for so many years?! The thought came to me, "what happens if my car breaks down." It was at this point that I realized that in our busy lives, we don't even have time to wait on a broken car. We don't want anything to slow down, or get in the way of, our busy pace. On the other hand, we are too often too busy, in too much of a hurry to help someone else stuck on the road? We want instant coffee and instant fixes. Granted, I can see the value in having speedy help on the highway, but that seems to me a symptom of a larger trend. We want what we want fast. It doesn't matter what it is. Health, wealth, happiness, we don't want to wait. It made me wonder again about what it is we are racing after...why are we in such a hurry? How much of life are we missing simply because we are racing through it?