In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry – to allow things to take the time they take – is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfilment to the future.*
Oliver Burkeman
Resistance is a small, playful collaboration with my friend
Rebecca, who showed me her screenprinting project
exploring four forms of resistance–**
I loved it, and wanted to get doodling,
And slow down.
*Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks;
**Rebecca is working on more.
I agree. But it’s not easy to live up to. I do my best 🙂
You’re absolutely right. It’s not easy. It’s about getting better at moving between fast and slow – not getting stuck in one or the other.
In today’s high pace society I am the holy underachiever. Because I choose to go slow. Like Ezra:
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.”
In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound.
It’s about finding the infinite inside a single, chaotic second. He captures a fleeting flash of beauty in a place where everyone else is just rushing to catch a train.
I’m out, slowing down to check on the ants and looking to find the holy petals in my days. I think you understand. Bless you
Thank you for sharing this, Selma, and for signing up to Thin|Silence. A couple of years ago, I journaled, ‘Silence, solitude, and slowness are three superpowers that everyone can develop and employ.’