By Melody Fletcher Patience is supposed to be a virtue. We are supposed to be patient. And yet, we as a society, are plagued by impatience. We stand in front of the microwave, tapping our fingers on the counter. Waiting 90 seconds for our food is too long. Television programs are starting to cater to people with the attention span of a goldfish. We get irate when we have to wait in line, and being stuck in traffic can lead to rage so intense and common, we coined a new term (road rage) to describe it. We are not a patient people, as a whole. But why not? Are we…