‘After this week things will slow down’

Hello Dear reader,

I’m back to share something that has been sitting in my drafts. I got off the Instagram hamster wheel a while ago, and it feels liberating. I do need to get back on it soon (because, marketing!) but I intend to do it on my own terms.

I also intend to get back to writing more regularly, and will be back with updates shortly, but for now, here’s what I wrote a few weeks ago

“After this week, things will slow down a bit…”

We’re constantly producing

Or consuming

(or being consumed by worry)

Where is the space for stillness?

Space to pause and look up

To realise that we’ve been sold a lie

We’re kept so busy

Going from one distraction to the next to the next

Systems designed beautifully

Algorithms so clever

Keeping you sucked in

The stakes only get higher

the more you work, the more work you’re tasked with

The busier we are, easier it is to keep us from realizing

That we’re being sold a dummy

a fantasy

that we’re working towards our dream lives

When in reality we aren’t working towards anything

Dream life?

That dream is a lie

We’re hamsters on wheels

Governed by bigger hamsters on bigger wheels

We fret and fret

About finishing that document

meeting our next deadline

Measuring metrics -

engagement, impressions, followers

Impact!

Hustle, optimize, multitask

hyper-productivity, time-hacks

Stop.

Breathe, look outside your window

That snail is carrying on with its life

Life goes on, nature and its cycles

Zoom out

Zoom out further

You’re a tiny speck

On a small planet

In a small galaxy

Among billions of galaxies

Billions

Just a tiny speck

Fretting over

an inconsequential, abstract concept

in a GIANT universe.

This world isn’t going to end

If you stayed still

just for a moment

or three.

Breathe.