Recently, I wrote about the “slow living” movement, a response to the ever-increasing speed at which we fly through life in the modern world, running from one activity to another, trying to keep our heads above the mire of all that we need to do, while stress accumulates until it’s like a heavy iron ring around our necks and we wonder where the days and years disappear to.
Slow living aims to strip away the inessentials from our lives so that we have the time and mental space to take a breath and focus on what really matters. It may be defined as “a mindset whereby you curate a more meaningful and conscious lifestyle that’s in line with what you value most in life.” Slow living questions the prevailing orthodoxy that to be successful, you must make a lot of money and accomplish things at a frenetic pace. Rather, we must organize our lives until they are properly balanced and ordered toward our true priorities, not toward the idol of mere efficiency and blind productivity.
