Move fast! Be fast about it! You're too slow! I hate it when you rest while others are working!
There's more where those came from, all directed to me and I'll go fast or start working again just to avoid more of the nag. I didn't know better that life has it's pace and I'm not so lazy when I follow it's pace at a fair level.
It's no doubt that as a new day comes, the world increases the pace of life. It is getting so fast that those who felt they have to be fast are turning down or off, maybe this is only a start of the speed the world would go soon.
I didn't understand going slowly or on a slow pace until some years ago when I had an experience that changed my thoughts about fast living. I fell sick and the only reason pointed out was that I needed rest to get back to working fine again.
I mean, I've been resting but it wasn't enough?
I realized I wasn't creating the balance that is needed between life's pace and my pace. I was resting but I was stressing and working more and that came back at me worse than I imagined it would.
For someone who isn't the hard working kind, I felt I needed to prove myself by forcing my body to do more to get validation from those who would praise the hard workers around me.
It was really hard keeping that pace but after realizing I didn't need to keep prove myself and just be who I am, I've been finding peace than I imagined. Am I really slow living and is it saving me now? Oh yeah! My life now speaks volume of it and I'm so grateful.
People would say I am lazy but I know better now that I am not, I'm only making use of time more productively and that is, for myself because the world will not slow down for me and it would keep going if I should go down burnt out.
Nowadays, I'll choose taking breaks, taking short walks (it can't be too long, I'd feel burned out too lol), watching nature in any form, eating well and keeping a positive thought than worrying about how to meet up with a particular life race which I know I'll achieve if I go slow and keep alive.
But really! What's with the haste to get things done?
I'd be up today to get things done and wake up tomorrow to get more things done like I didn't do any the other day, it just continue and it makes me wonder sometimes if I was created to just keep busy with no breaks. Oh no, I've changed if that was the case.
I remember a hangout my friend and I went for, she kept reminding us that it was a free day for us and we shouldn't dare do any hard activity but just enjoy the day to the fullest then we compare with our busy days. It was a funny suggestion but at the end of the day, I felt so energetic and lively to keep living.
That act taught me better to enjoy the goodies of life at my pace for my pace. I get burned out very rarely now and that is because I've come to terms with my pace and learned to slow life down while enjoying the feeling achieving goals in God's time.
And to be honest, fast living may happen without me realizing soon enough but whenever I do, I make sure to slow down and take the breaks I know I deserve. What about you, are you slow living?
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