Many years ago, I was driving long distances quite a bit. Driving to Maine, or down to New York, or up to New Hampshire. I also used to speed; nothing wild, but a solid 10 over most of the time; nothing you can't generally get away with. Each of these drives would be anywhere from two to three hours of alone time in the car, with the radio or playlist playing.
One day, I had the realization that driving this way (a little bit fast) was really gaining nothing. On paper, driving at 70 mph instead of 60 mph saves nearly 15 minutes over a 100 mile trip. However, you need to constantly be shifting lanes to keep your speed, and keeping an eye out after every cop at a speed trap. In reality, you aren't going highway speeds from door to door; there's traffic, rest stops, and you've probably blocked out most of the afternoon for travel anyways. We won't even get into your car being less efficient, or the dangers of high speed accidents.
So I started a new philosophy: once I get to the highway, set the cruise control for exactly the speed limit, and you'll get there when you get there.
Modern society has, obviously, sped up significantly from the days where people just walked everywhere. Then we had travel on horseback, and eventually cars and airplanes. Each is faster than the last, and so in the progress of society, we have placed great value on "doing things faster." On the other hand, we've lost track of the reality of "things take time." Some things seem to be forgotten in the microscopic planning of our lives down to the millisecond. If we're in a constant rush to do everything, there's no time to remember why we're doing anything. It becomes that things need to get done quickly and to schedule or everything is ruined. Even if that thing is just driving across town to the grocery store. Saving 30 seconds of driving time is cancelled out by waiting for the old lady to get her cart from the front of the store, or waiting for the cashier to come over and stop the self-checkout machine from panicking.
In striving for instant gratification, any minor annoyance or delay becomes a personal slight. They're doing this to slow me down. They're doing this to get me. It is, in fact, not that deep. Things take time.
We, as a society, need to be more okay with "I am far away from a thing, it's going to take me time to get there."
It's fine, we'll get there eventually.