Time has gone from a physical reality to a disease, living slowly has become synonymous with inefficiency or error. For a lot of people “waste time? It’s almost sacrilege, for we believe ‘the sooner the better’. The problem is, we’re not wasting our time: our lives have set a frenetic pace. We live with a lot of offers tipo. de and the things around us.
Living hastily is like not living. The contact we have with each experience is minimal, almost as if we have not experienced it, we eat fast, we walk fast, we work fast, we talk fast, we do not give ourselves enough time to taste and feel each experience. leads us to ignore, we live in a situation without actually crossing it. When we put aside the details, we do not capture the essence of many realities.
“Good is slow because it lifts us up, is evil fast because it leads to decomposition?. – Alexandre Dumas-
When you live at a very fast pace, you will hardly find time to think, there is no time to stop and think about what you do or how you live your life, you just have to walk faster, trying to get to the next moment. , so you don’t get lost.
The culture of has obvious consequences, the first is that your body remains overstimulant at all times: a constant discharge of cortisol and adrenaline, act almost as a psychoactive substance within your body and you become dependent on them.
However, the price is very high. When your body gets used to living at this rate, you don’t even have time to take a deep breath; your chances of getting sick increase considerably, this stress is fertile ground for some pains that become inseparable companions.
On the contrary, living slowly, or better, driving both speeds, offers stronger and more stable health, it is something that allows you to digest both the experiences you are going through, everything you eat and even the air you breathe. In the long run, this translates into physical well-being, which in turn contributes to your mental health. Living slowly helps us become aware of what is going on around us and within us: perceiving the sun, the warmth of the cup that we have, walking, looking at an image, doing our daily work, taking care of our children, Cook?
We live in an era of multitasking: we are confused, tired and have many activities. Turns out it’s not just about doing everything quickly; for some, the ideal is to do several things quickly at the same time. They believe that if they do multiple activities quickly and at the same time, they will be “effective people. “
This effectiveness can be useful in some respects, although many studies have pointed out that this efficiency will not benefit you, but a system that believes that time is money. The world is full of baubles, poor quality shoas. or ideas that last as long as a fad. To make disposable items, people have to produce in large quantities and, of course, quickly.
We live in a culture where it’s important to do a lot of things at the same time, even if it’s stressful, no matter if you like what you do or if you can improve the quality of your work. The logic of large-scale production has already shown that working less and more slowly produces better results.
Extreme speed reduces your tolerance level, because to support it, you need to develop a significant level of stress. If you are not alert, you will not be able to follow this frenetic pace of mass production, or a very high pace. plan, or take 3 or 4 jobs.
Without realizing it, you forget how to enjoy the small pleasures of everyday life; you can only live if you live slowly, when are you going to stop and see your child’s smile, when will you realize that life passes and that you are not the protagonist?In a high-speed race there is only time to think about not taking too long to move on to the next stage.
When you become speed-dependent, patience is a word that doesn’t make sense to you, in fact you’re exasperated and the reason for this irritation can be a delay, even minimal, so you’ll realize you’re making love in 3 minutes. What do you have in 2 minutes? One day you will look in the mirror and wonder where this vigorous young man who now looks like a tired and despondent adult has gone.