*Typing*
You have no idea what you're missing.
Kindness is slow.
It is difficult to be in a hurry and to be kind at the same time. Not because there is anything intrinsically malicious in hurrying but because kindness requires the time, attention and patience to really spread out and breath.
Looking the cashier in the eye, asking about her day and seriously listening to her response requires time, as does opening the door for the postman carting in a leaning tower of boxes.
If it is your hope to stop hurrying, remind yourself to be kind. The extra bit of eye-contact, the smile, the compliment, the listening ear and the gentle banter you will inevitably find yourself in will naturally slow you down.
Blur will become bliss.
This might get you killed.
Before Miyamoto Musashi, samurais fought with a single sword. When Musashi came into the picture
Art is a physical interpretation of an idea.
Art is a physical interpretation of an idea.
Take the Leaning Tower of Pisa for example. There is quite a bit of controversy around who the architect was that designed the tower. So, we will just call him or her "somebody".
One day, "somebody" had an ambitious idea for a freestanding bell tower. They laid out the design and got to work. Unfortunately, "somebody" badly fucked up the foundation of the structure and criminally underestimated just how long the project would take. 200 years later––and after several wars and a handful of budgeting mishaps––the bell tower was finally completed.
If "somebody" were alive today to see their creation, it's safe to say the "art" wouldn't exactly live-up to the "idea' they had in their head. The Leaning Tower of Pisa was never meant to be called the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It was never meant to lean.
Part of the creative process is accepting the reality that the art we create will never live up to the idea we originally had in our head. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. As I mentioned at the beginning of this write-up, The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a freestanding bell tower. There are 650 freestanding bell towers across the world. You know of only one and that's because it leans at precisely 3.97 degrees.