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Another friend writes: “There are so many fun things to fit into this lifetime, all threaded together by the less fun things, such as flossing and emptying the dishwasher. We keep thinking that if we just do more, we'll somehow be happier.”
Photo: Bruno Long Photography
But how to stop the speeding train of impatience now? We’re getting more and more used to getting what we want and now. No amount of waiting is considered acceptable because everyone else is getting their stuff so fast so why can’t you?
Box 2126 Revelstoke, BC V0E 2S0 www.reved.net editor@reved.net Publisher/editor Heather Lea editor@reved.net
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Staff writers
Alison Lapshinoff Colin Titsworth
Contributors
Rob Stokes Karen McColl Rikki MacCuish
How do we manage to be so fast yet so behind? Lets say you’ve got an hour and you decide to go old-school and bake bread. You head over to your computer and punch in Bread Recipes (quick rising, of course). Your fibre optic Internet system blasts back before you’ve finished typing bread and Tristan Overy taking the time to enjoy life in the mountains. you’re ready to get started. e-mails, may spend up to 50 per cent more time on But wait. There’s a mesWho’s Got Time For This? those tasks than if they work on them separately, sage in your inbox. You check and it’s a link from completing one before starting the other.” your friend to her Facebook photos. Now you’re If time-saving devices really saved time then in Facebook, the mother of all time-wasting shouldn’t we have more time? It is the era of high Like using an electric-mixer to blend cookie dough, traps and then the instant messaging starts. By speed this and speed dial that and yet we are still for example. I get impatient with the amount of time the time you’ve returned to the kitchen to make found exclaiming at the end of the day: I just don’t wasted just standing there operating a machine bread, you’re asking, where’d the time go? know where the time went! that doesn’t need me. So on goes the vacuum, which means I don’t hear the mixer grind itself off Don’t worry, there are all sorts of ways to make Can things really get much faster? Internet connecthe counter and onto the top rack of the dishwash- up for lost time. Speed dating is one. Now there’s tions are now using fibre optics, which travel at the speed of light. Barabus, a U.K. company that makes er, spilling its contents. Not only do I have to make a genius solution to the time-consuming method a new batch of cookies, but the dishwasher needs of dating. Forget going to the movies or out for high performance cars, has the TKR, a super-car dinner. That could take hours and the person capable of going from zero to 98 kph in 1.67 seconds. a thorough cleaning. might be a waste of time. So let’s pick it up a (I could sure use a car like that to get from Southside I’m a big fan of saving time in places I don’t want notch and mercilessly judge someone in three to the Big Eddy.) Text messages can not get any to be spending time. Self-check out lanes at the minutes or less. If you’re one of those unfortumore abbreviated. There is no quicker way to spell grocery store – now we’re talking! At first these nate types who’s a little off your game when ?4U (question for you) or RAOFL (rolling around on time-saving machines were only found in some meeting someone for the first time, too bad. Your floor laughing). Even spelling the words "I love you" of the larger city centres where really fast people three minutes of dating are up! It was fun while it is too much for some people. The new way to ‘say do everything really fast. Now we have them here lasted. Maybe you can still be friends... it with a text’ is 831. Confused? Eight letters, three in our hip little town – even Revelstoke is speedwords, one meaning…super romantic. ing up. It’s always a tough choice to opt out of the In the end, time isn’t saved, it is only spent. Take pleasant cashier experience at Coopers but there’s care to spend your time wisely doing what you Why are we so obsessed with speed? Everywhere this bit of excitement that runs through me when love with who you love. people are trying to get things done as fast as posI can push the buttons faster than the computer Heather Lea sible. Nobody sits down for a phone call anymore. can tell me what to do: “Please scan your-“ Beep! Editor/publisher It’s way more efficient to walk or drive while talking “Please enter-“ beep, beep, beep, beep. “Thank on your cell. On the ski hill this winter, I watched a you. Please-“ beep! woman come to a sudden stop and start frantically grabbing pockets looking for her ringing phone. After answering she returned to her skiing task while One problem with wanting to get so much done continuing to chat. She cruised around making giant, in the day is it actually tends to make us forgetful. Pg.2 Artist in Profile haphazard turns, ski poles tucked under her armpits Not in the I forgot to get milk forgetful, but in the way in which we can forget life’s pleasures. A friend Pg.3 Heritage Moments like lethal spears and yapped away. answered my time-saving questions with this comPg.4 Health and You ment: It shouldn’t surprise you then that, in this impatient Pg.5 Health and Wellness; Volunteer Job Pick world of bigger, better, faster, more, there are people Pg.6 What's Your Biz'ness out there spending their time conducting research on “I'm busy because the stuff that really counts in life Pg.7 RMR's Resort Report multi-tasking. According to an on-line report by David hasn't changed: cooking wholesome meals, playing Pg.8 Get Outta Here E. Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of with my kid, spending time with my lover, talking Pg.10 What Matters; From the Streets and enjoying life, getting outside and getting a good Michigan, “…productivity is actually hindered when Pg.11 Music Notes people try to accomplish two things (or more) at once. night's sleep. The stuff that technology takes care Pg.12 Sleeps n' Eats of is handy and all but it isn't stuff that I think is People who switch back and forth between tasks, like working on a project and answering the phone or important.”
What's in there?