There was a time when delay was not unusual enough to be noticed.  A train running late did not become a conversation. A letter arriving after several days did not feel like inefficiency. A decision taking weeks was not interpreted as hesitation. It was simply how things moved. Life, in that sense, had a natural lag built into it. Nothing arrived fully formed. Everything required a passage.  That rhythm has quietly disappeared. Today, delay is treated as failure. A message unanswered within minutes raises questions. Complaints can be raised just because a delivery did not reach on time. Even a brief pause in a system, raises brows and creates frowns.  Speed has stopped being a feature. It has become an expectation. This is where the shift has happened -  not in technology alone, but in behavior. Time is no longer experienced as duration. It is experienced as  a response. The........

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