Friday, May 15, 2015

Hurry Sickness

Hurry Sickness:  Our computers, our movies, our sex lives, our prayers — they all run faster now than ever before. And the more we fill our lives with time-saving devices and time-saving strategies, the more rushed we feel.

-- James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

This just doesn't feel true, it IS true.  I, for one, am likely a bit 'sick' in this regard.  I have to choose space and choose slow, as it doesn't often choose me (although I fear I may have missed its 'selection' of me recently, during my post-knee-surgery season).  In other words, I have to build it in.  If I don't, I start to feel a kind of nauseousness in spirit.

I awoke this morning feeling the effects of this illness.  I need to go to do something...slowly.