A Human Strategy #514: Slower, not faster.

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The “Good Life” is not the destination but the road, and a very narrow and winding road at that.  Always just ahead we find a sharp turn toward a need so “petty” that we refuse to slow down for it.  And where were we going anyway?  The question itself leads us astray.  As we admitted before, this is merely a road.  But if we resign ourselves to a road without a known destination, what striving toward will keep us on this road?  ... or at least allow us to cross it as many times as possible?  ... for we cross the road so rarely and haphazardly that it seems inconsequential to the journey.  But now I am getting ahead of myself again.  Slower, slower ... not faster.

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