Speed into oblivion
Our society is addicted to speed.
If a website doesn’t download in a heartbeat, we lose patience. Our frustration temperature rises.
We want instant gratification.
Give me the results now.
Claude AI spits out streams of code or copy far faster than I can type.
Slow and long and dreamy are boxed up and sealed tight.
Our biological, mental, spiritual and emotional health cannot keep pace.
We long to stop, be still, sleep in.
We have completely untethered from nature’s gestation. You cannot force the rose to bloom at 3 pm on Tuesday. It will bloom when it does, and not a moment sooner.
Some cycles take generations. Some take centuries.
At the centre of this speed drug is our belief that we humans have superiority over the timeline. We can force it to happen. We can ignore all the signals and signs appealing to slow. We do go hard and break things.
This impulse is fuelled by an immature and disconnected leadership. That of the dominator. Dominating time, people, nature.
Exhale. Slow down. Stop.
There is a cry for stewardship. For partnering with. For Kairos time.
Nature has its own gestation. In time. With time. Like the rose bud to bloom.
People cannot be until they are.
We rail against this flow because we have been taught that we control the flow.
The irony is that in our very dominion we become more disconnected, more separate. We become physically and mentally ill.
There are times to push. Yet unless these times are counterbalanced with exquisite attendance and attunement to Kairos time, we will speed into oblivion.
Photo Taken September 5th 2025, Article published September 5th, 2025
