Fast and Furious

A note of caution, a reminder to us all.

Our lives nowadays are too fast. Every year, every month, every week, every day, something new comes out. A new game every year, a new movie each month, a new website every week, a newborn baby every day. We, humans, are obsessed with speed. Always we want to get something done quick – "Hurry up!" – or have no time – "We're late!" – to do the things that really matter.

Perhaps it is because of our short lives. We live for no more than eighty years, and those that go past that age are rare. We are speed demons, hectic mobs that are too obsessed with speed to consider the little details, the slight mistakes that, if corrected, might make the whole picture beautiful, exotic, tempting.

It seems that humans have "sped up" as we develop newer and more powerful technology. We can assemble a car in minutes now, while a long time ago it might have taken hours. A beautiful spun scarf can be machine-woven in a minute, while a seemingly-similar home-spun scarf might take days. The difference is quality. Scarves woven in minutes might be easy to manufacture and create in mass amounts, but if you delve deep into the intricacies, the details, the uniqueness and loving care spun into the cloth itself, you will find it is ordinary, the same as any other scarf that came out of the same machine. A hand-spun scarf has the spinner's dedication, her determination, ultimately her love, inside it, made not hastily but determinedly, lovingly, caringly.

So a reminder to all of us now. Our lives are too fast, too hectic, too crazy. Slow down. See the wonders it will do.

Slow down, and see the wonders that will occur.