{"id":1130,"date":"2018-12-28T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2024-03-05T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T07:29:51","slug":"the-speed-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/the-speed-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Speed of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">We attempt to lead the speed of life as if we can travel <\/span><span>at<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">\u00a0the speed of light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Only recently, this dawned on me, that my attempt to deal with the stresses of life was\u2014in a true civilised\u00a021st-century approach to living \u2014to speed things up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Go faster, read faster, write faster, do chores faster, put the kids to bed faster&#8230;.so that I can buy more time for the next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Inadvertently, I became impatient to others. People who were walking slower, people who were late, people who were blocking my way. The truth is, I was becoming agitated with my wife and kids. Simply because, on hindsight, they weren&#8217;t traveling in the same speed as I was. Especially for my 5-year-old, who has a <em>very<\/em> different concept of time, takes a fairrrrrr amount of time&#8230; to get ready to go out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Something&#8217;s not quite right with this type of speed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">The speed of life is not the speed of light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Therein lies the paradox: Time speeds up when we are rushing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">We see much more when we are walking by our familiar street than when we are driving by in the comforts of our car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">I&#8217;m still grappling with this. Daily, I remind myself again not only to slow down, but to do less, and embrace this persistent paradox with time. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,65],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections","tag-stress","tag-time","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}