An Era of Urban Impatience: the Elevator Syndrome
Living in an age of over populating rapid urbanization that has seen many o’ wide open spaces replaced with the likes of slums and suburbia, the cities of the world continue to expand across horizons, expanding through the upper stretches of the biosphere. With longer horizontal and vertical distances to cover, we’ve come to be coerced in accommodating an increase in commute times coupled with a decrease in patience.
With such combustion of city congestion, essentially, everyone’s running to stand still.
Honking horns, red tail lights and roaring engines in rush hour are the norm of the streets. On the sidewalks, crosswalks, and within the buildings throughout the lego-land expanse, human herds stampede towards their destinations as if contestants in the latest reality game of survival of the fittest. Not surprisingly, redundant repetitions of modern lifestyles have implanted us with various new habits, soon to be on the verge of installation in to the human genome. Of these peculiar nervous-phenomenon is what one might refer to as the ‘elevator syndrome.’
Next time you’re in the elevator, observe that person next to the buttons. Nine times out of ten, he or she will be anxious to manually push the doors close as soon a person enters or exits, never mind that the elevator is automated to close on its own. Rather than take that millisecond opportunity to breath and let the machine do what it was programmed to do, this contagious syndrome has us anxious to speed up the process, saving us truly an insignificant amount of time, while probably even taking more time away from our ultimate life span as we let anxiety and anticipation control our lives.
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