Carl Honore spoke of the ways of our fast paced world. Whether your calling someone, reading, walking, or exercising in the modern world you are now doing it with speed. We are living in "a world stuck on fast forward" as Honore states. And to every degree, I believe his statement is true. Too often we as humans are worried about losing time, wasting time, or missing something and for this reason, we feel we must always be living in a race against time. Never thinking of the tolls that this race is burdening our lives with, whether it is dealing with your relationship, work quality, health, or happiness always running around from one situation to the next puts an extreme burden on a persons well-being. I personally have never took the time to think of the world being so fast that everyone is missing the enjoyment from life, but after listening to his speech, I see more now so that there are more people that think this same way about life being held on the fast track, but others do not think it is a bad thing all the time, such as Kenny Chesney's 'Living In Fast Forward' song, he is putting it into a text that he doesn't mind that his life is held on fast. A question that Honore posed was, how did we get so fast? I pondered on that for most of the speech there after and came to the conclusion that as technology progressed so did the speed rate of the world. The Internet was too slow, so technology made it a thousand times faster with high-SPEED. The world revolves around the different technologies and the more advanced the technology becomes, the faster this world is going to spin. Another question that was posed was, is it possible to slow down? I believe it is possible for a single person to slow down with their own life, but for the entire society I do not believe it can be slowed down at this point simply because the advancements in technology, speed dialing will never go away, high-speed Internet will never go away, Rachel Ray's 30 minute meals aren't going off air. The world is not going to regress because a couple people feel that everyone is missing out on life. Although this may be true, people are missing the greatness of their lives by watching the clock for 5 o'clock everyday Monday-Friday, and at the same time praying that Friday will come as quick as the weekend is over. Time is only what you make it, either its a race against life, a short memory track that you take slowly and enjoy, or its just that...time whats kept on a clock. Everyone has different views of what time can be and it's all in how you look at it.
People need to do like Carl Honore did "find the inter-tortoise in yourself."
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