What have we done to ourselves?

We as a people that live in a world, no matter where on the globe, of give me now are failing and have failed ourselves and our offspring.  People now believe that if they want something they should have it and have it now.  Corporations and individuals alike. Why are the people of the world "I want it therefore it will be." thinkers?  There are people dying at the hands of these thinkers.  There are people homeless at the hands of these corporations and people. 

 I myself have this happening inside my own brain.  I have two credit cards that are close to maxed.  I have another that I only use for emergency because I don't have the cash.  We don't have a savings to cover an emergency, we wait for out tax return to cover the husbands expenses for the year but that doesn't last.  I want my children to jump and do what I say when I say it.  I want a job but have not even been able to apply properly because of my surgeries.  I don't want to be in debt, I don't want to be a burden to my husband and I want it all to go smooth and with out issues.  I have fallen into the mindset of I want it, it should be mine.   I regret that thought process, I really do.  As an adult in the middle of my life I am having to teach myself patience and it is not going smoothly, ask my kids.  I was never taught patience and I don't know how to teach it to myself or my teenagers.

Today there was a horrible shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington D.C..  We may never know why, but something caused this man to do this horrible thing and take other peoples lives.  Here locally on the news was a story about a man that was angry (road rage) because someone honked at him because he did not turn on a green light.  For what ever reason he struck a retired couple while they were riding their trike motorcycle and now the husband is dead and the wife in critical condition.  Why?  They both could have been in the mental angry I want it now place, and now people are dead.  I know there are more occurrences like this all over the world.

I would like to think that if we all just taught and learned patience and forgiveness along with understanding and compassion we could save ourselves and our planet.