instant gratification

In a world of limitless options and limited resources, it’s a familiar bind: whether to spend your hard-earned cash on the fun thing that promises instant gratification, or the sensible one that may pay off in the future.

Crystal set aside her “strong bias towards instant gratification” and signed up for the course.

“You watch them grow and come out stronger and hopefully fall in love with them along the journey. Then the audience gets the instant gratification of watching his movie.”

At that point my hearing loss was still fairly mild, and I was buoyant at the prospect of testing out trial hearing aids—mostly because I thought they would bring instant gratification, much like the first time I wore glasses.

Of course, we currently live in a world that’s very much based on instant gratification, everyone wants everything now.