In this impatient, impetuous age it can be difficult to believe that there can be joy in waiting.

Today I received one of those emails with 10 witty comments. Here was one of them:

The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by those who got there first.

OK, so it makes you laugh, but isn't there a grain of truth in this in terms of how people feel and act? We have so much, but we're terrified with not having more. We act as though getting there first and having more will bring us happiness, but all the research in positive psychology and anthropology suggests that beyond a very basic level (and if you're reading this blog you are almost certainly above that level) more doesn't make you any happier.

Let other people get there first. Ok you may get left with the 'scraggly junk' or may be you'll decide not to go there at all..