Thanks, my friend! I appreciate your words, but I feel in some sense the opposite. Or let me rephrase. I am a kind of romantic (not the modern sense of the word, more 1800s): I feel saddened that others won't slow down as well. I feel sad to appreciate the world like this alone and that trying to help others result in wasted time more often than not. But in a more modern sense, I fully agree with you. Slowing down and appreciating the mundane and every day leads to a "fuller" life that might lead to happiness.