Slow Down Your Pace

How long have you been living a fast-paced lifestyle that one day you find out whatever you do is just instinctual. You no longer use your cognitive mind to process your thinking and actions. Out of a sudden, it seems like everything just becomes a... ... habit? 

The moment we wake up after multiple snoozes on the alarm, we jump out of bed, thinking, "Crap, I am almost late to work AGAIN!" Then we halve the time taken to clean up ourselves, hurry our child to get ready for school. Oh, not to forget before leaving the house, we grab along a PB&J toast and munch on it on our way to our child's school. After dropping our child, we then speed to our workplace. Ah, just on time...Phew! We proceed to sit down at our desk, switch on the PC and begin our work. "Why it's not lunchtime yet?" "Yesssssss, few more minutes..." "It's lunchtime!" We then leave our desk, go and have lunch with our colleagues, only to come back to the same desk again after an hour. "Arghhhhh, so sleepy, how I wish I can go back to sleep now, zzz..." After few hours of tormenting, it's finally time for us to punch card and leave this tedious place. We stop by McDonalds to get ourselves a cheeseburger on our way home. While eating the cheeseburger at home, we sip on Coca Cola and munch on the fries. Playing on the TV screen is another episode of Stranger Things. After indulging, we clean up ourselves and get ready to wind down. 

Ah, how exciting it is to repeat the same routine daily, isn't it?

We wake up wondering why we are so tired everyday even though we get enough sleep every night. The problem is never on us, it's on our schedule. The way we structure our day just... Well, burns us out, not gonna lie. The way we repeat the same thing again and again, under the pressure of feeding the family, the pressure of impressing our colleagues, the pressure of having to please our boss, how can one not feel tired? 

In our mind, we are full of thoughts like this, "I have to be this, I have to be that, I have to be..." Even if our lifestyle isn't considered fast-paced, our mind is in constant race. The neurons are. They are racing against one another because one side of you decide to be this but another side of you decide to be that. They have to race against each other to outlast all the other neurons. Yet, at the end of the day, did they make it? No. They go haywire though. They go too fast, and end up crashing with each other at a junction. They be like, "Hey, you know what? Why not we stop racing, aren't you tired?" "Yeah, I am. We should stop." 

Boom, they stop functioning because they are too tired. Your mental clarity proceeds to go on a downward spiral. That's why sometimes you catch yourself doing something you don't even realize you are doing. When you come back to reality, "Why am I holding this? What am I doing? Where am I ?" 

Answer this honestly: Are you tired?

You should probably slow down your pace, pal. I know life is hard, you are intimidated and overwhelmed. Hell, everything is completely over the place. 

Slow down your pace. Reconnect with your inner self. Let the inner you guide you. Better yet, you can disconnect yourself from this world temporarily. 

What good is life if you are just dreading yourself to survive one more day?