WALK SLOWER, LISTEN HARDER & SMILE YOUR DAY THROUGH WITH CONFIDENCE
- Jeff
- Jun 14, 2014
- 2 min read
Look, it's another night shrouded in serenity again, not much people around, except one or two cyclists that just overtook me. I started to think, slowing down my bike, and my bike stopped just a few meters before entering the house. I look upon me. I never realise how beautiful is the world above me, dozens of stars glimmer above, forming the Orion, no obstruction, no white cloud, nothing but those stars glow
in the dark. Sadly though, I don't actually have the time to stop for long and count the stars. Afterall, they are all that needed to make me feel good, a lovely, borderless night sky.
And then, I feel that there are words I want to tell, hundreds of them. Way too many to tell them all, and way too hard to get a listener in this night.
You see, just as fast as how I pedalled my bike, thinking of my dinner, a visit to the grocery, so on and so forth... I might have even omitted friends or acquaintances en route.( Nope, just too dark to spot one XD).Of course, pace of our life has gone frantic, you can't stop and rest for long, or risk getting left behind. Of course, again, they say it is best to have a balance between this work and that leisure, true, true, true... My way is to make this life less of an obligation but more of a challenge, it gets less stressful and more of a goal to me.
But still, balance is all that matters. Challenges after challenges are never healthy. Sometimes, we will have to slow down, walk slower, pedal your bike slower, do something you like, take a deep breath and pay a little attention to little details of the city around you and very importantly, people around you.
In a conversation, we need a speaker, a listener, or rather, a follower. Most of the time, people listen so as to be able to answer, not listen to understand. So, if you ask me to stop and think about this, yea.. I did this too, and even interrupting at times.
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