it’s all going too fast
....the planet earth is spinning faster, the etheric web of time has shifted to another frequency, our DNA has changed, transformation, moving to a higher vibration, end of the Mayan calendar, a comet heading straight for us, the world about to end....
These are the sorts of conversations you routinely overhear at the farmers market on Friday morning in Mullumbimby, while buying your organic avocados, macadamias and locally grown ginger; or while sipping your local organic coffee or lemon myrtle tea, munching on mediterranean omelette or home made cake.
It’s all very Northern New South Wales. I quite like it - I prefer a bit of New Age wah wah about energy and earth and spirit, to the conversations you might overhear elsewhere about drab (and equally abstract) concepts like say, the stock market , the economy, or interest rates.
Also, I’m starting to wonder if there isn’t some sort of truth among the ‘everything’s getting faster’ theories. I sure feel like my world is spinning faster than it used to. The school week from Monday to Friday seems to be gone in a blink, the term, the year, flying past. I’m trying to hold on to my hat.
Other people I chat to seem to feel this sense of acceleration too. Perhaps it’s the headspinning speed of modern communication. It wasn’t so very long ago that we wrote letters, posted them, waited for a reply, the whole process taking days or weeks, which nowadays takes only minutes. Remember going to libraries, to find information, remember looking things up in books? I am nostalgic for those sleepy screen-free days of the late twentieth century.
I feel kind of speeded up in myself lately. Leisurely market mornings not withstanding. Lovely afternoon singing group at school, marimba group, writers’ group - I have all these grounding here-and-now activities in my life, and a garden to potter in, yet there is still an undercurrent, like a sort of whirring vortex.
I reckon its more than just the whirl of my own anxiety or my caffiene-pumped pulse-rate. It’s the sense of the whole human world spinning faster, the rate at which we are trashing the earth, water and air, the madness of corporate greed and our own crazy consumeristic feeding frenzy while others starve, the exploding human population and extinction of other creatures on the planet. It feels like a runaway train with us all on board...
Am I being too ‘negative’? Not really, because these things are happening - there truly is a sort of madness in this world, and a feeling of rushing headlong towards....what?
I like the quote I heard ( via Pema Chodron) “Things are getting worse and worse and better and better, faster and faster”
Because there is good stuff happening too...And thank god for the daily miracle of the garden. Time to go and water the veggie patch.
2 comments:
We create our close environment and, more often than not, try to fit as much 'business' into our days as we can. This seems to have the reverse effect of speeding our lives up and we lose the ability to perceive the subtle energies around us. Somewhere I saw people questioning why we need two incomes to keep our ships on coarse? Our ships have become overloaded! People who live simple lives move slowly and can enjoy the sunsets...the smells of the rain, the flowers,...the texture of sand between their toes,,,the sound of the frogs welcoming the rain....why would we want to move so fast that our lives wizz right past'life'!
But then I couldn't be reading you right now, while watching the day come over San Sebastian bay, thousands of miles apart, and yet only a few hours of flight.
If only greed - the bad guy of the story - weren't so out of control, even now, after all that has gone these last years. If only we could apply some restrain to that.
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