Have you ever walked beside a turtle? Heavy breathing not needed. The experience is close to drinking a cup of chamomile in a soundproof room. Turtles are—and this is no exaggeration—slow.
Turtles aren’t the model of our affluent lifestyles, not the model for frenzied concert goers, and not the model for traffic or races along the Baja. Turtles take one step…..then another…..careful steps all. Did I say this before? Turtles are slow.
And they have a calming effect. Think turtle. Relax. You’re relaxing now. You can’t help it. Turtles have that kind of control over your entire being. See a turtle; be a turtle. Who needs meditation or biofeedback machinery when a turtle is in the room?
Who wants to be a slow turtle? Look at turtle problems, such as crossing a highway. Maybe ten drivers swerve to miss the critter, but a driver following a truck usually fails to see it. Squish. Anyway, we can’t have humans jeopardizing their lives to save a being that just can’t keep up with our pace. We do have things to do and places to go—fast.
What’s our goal? Although tachyons are fictional particles, they symbolize our desire to get everything done yesterday, to reverse both time’s arrow and cause and effect. Our goal in a tachyonic lifestyle makes us say at the end of each day or week, “Where did the time go?”
We can’t go faster than the laws of nature allow us. We can’t exceed the speed of light. But there are other speed limits we keep trying to increase or exceed, and most of them we derive from the values modern life places on us.
Of course, not everyone wants to race like a tachyon. There are people who have walked with turtles and acquired their unspoken lesson: A tachyonic lifestyle isn’t more valuable than one imitative of a turtle’s. It’s just different by many orders of magnitude.
Turtle or tachyon? Which one will characterize your life today?
Turtles aren’t the model of our affluent lifestyles, not the model for frenzied concert goers, and not the model for traffic or races along the Baja. Turtles take one step…..then another…..careful steps all. Did I say this before? Turtles are slow.
And they have a calming effect. Think turtle. Relax. You’re relaxing now. You can’t help it. Turtles have that kind of control over your entire being. See a turtle; be a turtle. Who needs meditation or biofeedback machinery when a turtle is in the room?
Who wants to be a slow turtle? Look at turtle problems, such as crossing a highway. Maybe ten drivers swerve to miss the critter, but a driver following a truck usually fails to see it. Squish. Anyway, we can’t have humans jeopardizing their lives to save a being that just can’t keep up with our pace. We do have things to do and places to go—fast.
What’s our goal? Although tachyons are fictional particles, they symbolize our desire to get everything done yesterday, to reverse both time’s arrow and cause and effect. Our goal in a tachyonic lifestyle makes us say at the end of each day or week, “Where did the time go?”
We can’t go faster than the laws of nature allow us. We can’t exceed the speed of light. But there are other speed limits we keep trying to increase or exceed, and most of them we derive from the values modern life places on us.
Of course, not everyone wants to race like a tachyon. There are people who have walked with turtles and acquired their unspoken lesson: A tachyonic lifestyle isn’t more valuable than one imitative of a turtle’s. It’s just different by many orders of magnitude.
Turtle or tachyon? Which one will characterize your life today?
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