Find Your Inner Tortoise

I began my Earth Day celebrations by finding a link to this Carl Honore Ted Talk in my inbox.   What better way to see the world than …  

through the eyes of your inner tortoise.

In the head long dash of daily life we can lose sight of the damage from this roadrunner form of living does to us … we fail to notice the toll it takes on …  the environment.  And sometimes it takes a wake up call … to alert us to the fact we are hurrying through our lives instead of living them, that we are living the fast life instead of the good life.  And I think … that wake up call takes the form of … a burnout – or eventually the body says ‘I can’t take this anymore’ and throws in the towel.

Slow movement gifts you the experience of the good life and the awareness to recognize it.  After all … the story tells us the tortoise was the winner in the end.

SIMBY