Slow living (One best way to live)
If you are living, one best way to do it is to go slow.
The world has convinced you that the fun is in pace. The world has convinced you the meaning is in reaching as much as possible. Every moment you may be feeling that you are missing out on a lot of stuff while you slow down.
There are enough movies, series, reels and books on this planet which you will never finish consuming whatever speed you go.
At a point in my life I started believing, there was worth in re-visiting the best books and movies which I enjoyed that simply opening up another new one every day.
Slow down. Absorb more.
You have to be slow enough that you can drown in the nature and become a part of that environment.
Slow enough to realize that the smell of that tiny white flower is worth more than anything you will ever come across in life.
I didn't know this in this depth until I visited a village and stayed there for one month. They literally were the bottom of pyramid. But I can say, they were more peaceful and happier than most people I have come across in my life.
I stopped watching TV/netflix shoes while having dinner. Adding the screen didn't make my eating experience any better - but took away from my ability to immerse in the tastes of my food.
Slow = appreciate. You will naturally start doing this.
Slow means, you are there. You are not racing to another point in time/life, which simply means, you just want to get this over with.
And where are you going - in that moment in future you will again look forward to next thing.
Grass is greener on the other side, because you don't look down and see the meadows you are standing!
We have got it wrong - in most places the idea is not to search for greener grass. But the idea is to find the green in the grass we are standing in!
"I will get there, but now I'm here, and here is wonderful." - some body said some where.
Most beautiful moments of life was that slow mornings and slow evenings with my close ones and friends around. There was no where else to go. No one was rushing to finish the moments and start something else.
Slow gives meaning.