One Apple A Day #671 - Run Baby Run
My life is blessed by the presence of fantastic people with I can engage in inspiring conversations. The other day I was telling my dear friend Luca, that sometimes I feel like a child lost in a crowded place. I don't know if it ever happened to you as a kid. Or maybe you've witnessed it. A child going around with her parents in a crowded place, like a square or mall, side by side. Then, maybe because she sees something fascinating or her parents got distracted for a second, the child loses the grip on her parent's hand. All of a sudden, the parents are nowhere to be seen. Everything becomes big, dark and scary. The child, frightened and desperate, begins running around frantically to find her parents. Sometimes, I feel like a lost child. And I find my inner child running around looking for the adult version of myself. Though, we all know that the best solution is to stand still and wait to be found, fear pushes me to run around. Wasting energy and time.
Luca helped me see that, in my running, there may also be the desire to get out of a painful situation as soon as possible. The faster I run, the sooner I'm out. How often does it happen in life? Because we are in pain, we accelerate thinking that this way, the pain will go away sooner. Instead, too often, we are just wasting energy, and a pause would help us see things more clearly.
Then the day after Giulia reminded me that, in our continually accelerating and changing society, we teach people that they must go faster if they want to keep the pace. Run baby run. But is true? What if we challenge the idea that faster is better? Maybe, if we try to stand still, breath and wait for a moment, the way forward will find us.