I am impatient. When I first learned how to crochet a few years ago, I did almost everything in some form of double crochet (treble if you are in the UK). I liked the way it made the projects go so much quicker. Single crochet seemed to take forever to build any sort of progress. I thought of it as my least favorite of the basic stitches.
The past few months, I’ve worked on a few projects that are all single crochet. There was the fish hat, the VW van pillow, the little bird, and now the cat pillow. That’s a lot of single crochet stitches. I don’t know what happened, but I might be getting into the zen of single crochet. After a rainy morning, the sun came out around 3:30 and I took the opportunity to sit outside and put in a few rows on the cat pillow back. I may have broken out an early adult beverage as well, it was Friday after all. At one point, I looked down at the piece I was working on and saw how nice single crochet can be. It is a very orderly stitch. It’s denseness does serve a good purpose on certain projects. The repetition of doing it was just what I needed, and I liked being able to see something end up neat, and not need a lot of concentration.
I still love the speed double crochet provides for projects like afghans, and the airiness it gives to scarves, but I am now willing to admit that single crochet has its good points. too.
alookatthelittlethings 
I agree with you on the single crochet! Repetitiveness can be oddly calming!
It is funny how at times it is calming, and at other times it can make me impatient. I’m trying to get to an always calming place.
I hear ya sister! Crochet zen!