Now that's delayed gratification!

The book [i]The Pillars of the Earth[/i] by Ken Follett points out something I never thought about.

Regardless of the moral ramifications, building a cathedral took decades and more.

I wonder if anyone today could even entertain the idea of committing so much money and so many lives for a project they would never see completed.

Now relationships shatter over a text left on "read" for an hour.