If you really think about it,  for all its conveniences, a lot of modern life seems to be spent waiting. Whether it is that five minutes lining up in the queue at a coffee shop or the several months you count down the days until your fancy vacation, there is a lot of time in our relatively short lifespan that seems to be exclusively dedicated to the anticipation of something happening. 

With their promise of instant gratification, memes go against this philosophy of waiting it out for anything good, and they are also great at distracting us when we have something to wait for that we are impatient about. What might be a loss in productivity is a gain for temporary peace of mind, and most of us could do with a little more of that on a Monday. The promise of that is only a few short scrolls away.