we don't breathe enough

Why is it that when something happens, we have to fix it? Right then. Is it like if not, we will automatically fall to the floor and choke? Someone please inform me. The urgency of situations, caused by almost everything is seeping it's pretty little way through the cracks of our doubt-full skulls and is tampering with a little something I like to call our intuition. This my friends, is what amazes me about our own kind. How it is possible, that creatures with much power, let the pressure of whatever fuck with us... 

Keep in mind, this is all coming from someone in their teenage years who is well aware of how intense the pressure of every individuals specific whatever can be. What I really would like to know, is why we cant step back and accept things for what and where they are at that moment? Why...Why can't we breathe?