{"id":628,"date":"2022-10-02T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T06:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2022-10-02T06:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T06:09:01","slug":"the-hurry-cane-in-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/02\/the-hurry-cane-in-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"The HURRY Cane in our lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caveat Emptor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I am not making a compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry<\/strong> and in favor of a slower, simpler way of life- but writing as someone all too familiar with ‘ hurry sickness<\/em><\/strong> ‘, I desperately needed this salve. Some of you may as well. Hence taking the liberty.<\/p>\n

” Nature<\/strong> does not hurry<\/strong>, yet everything is accomplished “- Unknownymous<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

” Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry<\/strong>. Nothing good gets away<\/strong><\/em> “\u2014 John Steinbeck<\/strong><\/cite><\/p>\n

Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of us seem to miss the wood for the trees in our pursuit of pleasure because of the breathless haste in which we go about, we hurry past it<\/em><\/span>. Irony! As Lily Tomlin<\/strong> beautifully articulated ” The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat”.<\/p>\n

Burnout is not a badge of honor.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0When Marcus Aurelius<\/strong>( Stoic philosopher and Great Roman Emperor from 161 AD to 180 AD) spoke of his own impending and inevitable death<\/span>, it wasn\u2019t to remind himself to squeeze in as much crap as possible\u2013it wasn\u2019t about picking up the pace. It was to remind himself of what was important, of the standard to which he needed to hold himself. He said, \u201cDo everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life.\u201d That is:\u00a0Do it right.<\/i>\u00a0Not do it as quickly as possible so you can say it\u2019s complete.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s true, we will die. It could be tomorrow, or it could be fifty years from now. Which is why this very moment is so important. And why we can\u2019t let anyone rush us through it.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re in a hurry. To get to the office. To get through this meeting. To get to the restaurant. To get the kids in bed. To get to go on your vacation. We rush because we have somewhere to go, something we want to do more, stuff we want to get over with.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s worth asking, as the Stoics did, what were we\u00a0really<\/em> rushing through? And what we are doing it at the expense of the present moment<\/em>. We tell ourselves that the future\u2014the thing we are after\u2014will be better. But the truth is, it\u2019s not guaranteed. The only thing for sure is now. What is lived we never get back. We are dying every minute, every second. When we hurry we are speeding that along.<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the purpose of\u00a0memento mori<\/span>\u2014\u201dremember that you will die.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0It\u2019s purpose is to make you slow down. To not rush through this moment but to\u00a0exist in it.<\/em>\u00a0To be present for it. Even if it is mundane. Even if there is something else you\u2019d rather be doing, even if what may come next is likely better.<\/p>\n

The practice of memento mori<\/em> <\/span>has the profound potential to wake us up and breathe more life into our lives. The whole culture is telling us to hurry while the art tells us take your time. Listen to the art. And the heart<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Patience doesn’t mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with\u2014\u00a0Sharon Salzberg<\/cite><\/p>\n

Time for us to slow down. Or the other option is to Hurry up and wait 😄<\/span><\/span><\/b> !<\/p>\n

Sorry got to go. The next ‘ shiny object<\/em><\/strong> ‘ beckons. And I am all taken in by the ‘ thrill of the chase<\/em><\/strong> ‘ and the potential ‘ after glow<\/strong><\/em> ‘.<\/p>\n

It’s worrying..or hurrying???<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caveat Emptor I am not making a compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and in favor of a slower, simpler way of life- but writing as someone all too familiar with ‘ hurry sickness ‘, I desperately needed this salve. Some of you may as well. Hence taking the liberty. ” Nature does not … Continue reading “The HURRY Cane in our lives!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163,1154,944,1155,1156,497,1148,3,965,1146,1152,1150,906,1144,1143,1151,1149,1147,1153,1145,105],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-aspirations","tag-burnout","tag-caterpillar","tag-chrysalis","tag-culture","tag-death","tag-emotions","tag-heart","tag-hurry","tag-hurry-sickness","tag-john-steinbeck","tag-life","tag-marcus-aurelius","tag-memento-mori","tag-nature","tag-patience","tag-rush","tag-sharon-salzberg","tag-stoic-philosopher","tag-stoicism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}