Slowing down by 0.1 mph

I wonder what the world would be if everybody in the world would slow down by 0.1 mph. I’m not talking about the people in rural areas who could sit all day long doing nothing, but more about people in big cities who keep moving around the clock. Even though they seem to sit still, their minds keep thinking, planning and focusing. Imagine the streets will be calmer, no rushing and no cutting roads. Imagine a relaxing stock exchange trading room. Phewww, I can imagine if our minds were like the clock on the wall in my room and we could hear the machine, the noise of the machines in our minds would definitely create a deafening noise.

I just find it amazing (and feel endlessly blessed) that after months and months of moving, thinking and working fast I could keep going on. I’ve never got serious illness that forces me to lie in bed and do nothing. Well I’ve had that, but I’m referring to the time after that illness (I think it was almost 10 years ago). So I am truly blessed.

Now back to slowing down, at times I could feel like my head starts to spin because they’re just so many things to think about and so many tasks to be taken care of. Recently I felt like one of these days I’d just exhausted and then collapse. Things would get out of control, I work harder and harder just to find as I study my check list that the list only gets longer and longer. At times as I sped on the road I consciously slowed down the car just to get my control back and not being too rushy.

Whether I realize it or not (actually I do realize it), this speedy lifestyle only gets the worse of me. I’ve grown to be an impatient person, I talk fast (too fast for some people), think fast, drive fast, I even eat so fast I sometimes have to think hard what I had for lunch. I want everything to be done in an instant, I count the phone rings when I call people and complain if they don’t pick up after 5 ringings.

Everything went so fast I felt like I’m short of breath.

Now I’ve decided that by the end of this week I will slow down.
· The easiest realization to this is no more overtime, not later than 6 PM, turn off computer before I head home so I don’t get lured to open computer and check unanswered email when I got home later.
· Also what’s important is to stop by at my friends’ desk at the office. It’s just sad to see how we’re so caught up with work we lost the connection with other people, even those who we work with. What’s left was ‘good morning’ and ‘good night’.
· Start reading books.
· Then I will reserve tickets, could be to head for Jakarta, or other places. Preferably to some place with no internet connection, but maybe not. This will be done when I got it approved.

Right now, count from one, slowly breathe in, count to ten, and breathe out.