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Run. Run. Go faster. Don't stop for anything. Make no detours. Run straight ahead or you'll never get it all done.
This is how I lived. Once, during a brief respite, I managed to notice the small beauties that my then-calm eye chanced upon. I remember that I enjoyed noticing them.
But somehow I re-forgot how to slow down and I re-lost the ability to notice. Oh, I often put it on my calendar
and added it to my to-do list: "Slow down. Stop doing. Stop running. Remember to notice."
A friend and I (both do-ers of the first order) were talking to another friend, whom we hadn't seen for months. We asked her how she spent her days. "Oh," she said. "I read. I do a little yoga. I take a nap. I sit. Sometimes I meditate. Or think. Sometimes, yes, I just sit and ponder."
I was tired of running. As soon as I finished off my to-do list for that day, I began to slow down. I started waiting for small-beauty moments, since small beauties in our lives are really all we have.
Now my pace is deliberately and consciously slower. Keep your eyes peeled for the new me as I meander along the sidewalks of life, making room for small beauties.
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