We modern people hate to wait. In our busy-busy, get-ahead, world waiting is a waste of time. After all, he who hesitates is lost. We must be "firstest with the mostest"; and, if the situation is not ready for us to be firstest, then we manipulate things to make it ready. Yet, before we go farther with these attitudes we all share, let us stop to consider that there are many good reasons for waiting. Let’s look and see.

We wait for paint to dry. When we do not wait, the second coat bleeds through and we have a real chore on our hands. We wait for children to get well. If not, we turn them out too early, and they suffer a relapse. Recovery time triples or more. We wait for candy to set. If we do not, it is not good enough to serve to company, so we sneak back into the kitchen between conve…