"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." African proverb
What are you focusing on right now? (Deep breath)
Can we slow down enough to be present for each other?
What is so important that we rush around in steel boxes, faster and faster, waiting anxiously in traffic or in line, ostensibly to acquire 'presents' 'for giving'.
Is this not the best gift, our presence together? And is this not the best present, forgiving?
How little time we actually spend with friends and loved ones, even when we say we want to. We tell each other that we can't afford the time, we are so busy.
How did it come to this? What are we working so hard all day all year all our life to save up for?
People used to hang out together and play most of the time. Who took away that inborn right? When did we agree to relinquish this right?
Have we become so individuated, so sequestered, that we have come to believe we actually are separate little islands? Did we check ourselves in to this imprisonment in planet-degrading metal isolation boxes? Is this working for us?
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