Impatient

You know how you go through phases in life? Well, my latest phase is the "impatient" phase. It seems to hit me around the summer time, mostly because I realize that I am a poor college student who has no money, and that sucks. Sometimes I am impatient because I have a burning desire to go back to France, sometimes it is because I see a new gadget I want, or because an old one has malfunctioned and I really want to replace it. In any case, I think that the "impatient" phase is possibly the most annoying of the phases that we go through. It manifests itself in different ways for different people, but there are a few things that are common to all who are going through this particular phase:

1. Sour moods, crankiness in general. When in the impatient phase, no matter how many things go right, they always seem to be outweighed by a lack of money, cool cars, cool phones, cool computers, etc...
2. Compulsive buying. I have noticed in myself and others that when this phase hits we tend to buy a lot of small, random things to try to make up for what we don't have, which usually just leads to clutter
3. Rationalization. People in this phase generally try to rationalize going into debt for non-essentials, which will only lead people into the "financial ruin" phase

Myself, I have managed to stick to a somewhat cranky demeanor this time. I have tamed the compulsive buying urge, and I hate debt so much that no rationalization is good enough for me... Maybe I can beat this thing yet...