[Originally written in 2007 for a campus publication while I was in medical school; it has remained disquietingly relevant.] We have become impatient, unfulfilled, and perpetually fixated on the future. We have filled our lives with so much hardware and noise that it makes us wonder if we too will waste away into a dull obsolescence. I had never been to a Black Friday shopping spree before. The thought of camping out for hours in the chilling pre-​​dawn night always seemed perverse to me . . . but that … [Read more...] about On Technology, Thanksgiving, and Patience