The most common answer to "How are you?" is now "BUSY". Some get creative and invoke humor saying something like "Busier than a one armed paper hanger in a dress factory" or "Busier than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs." Okay, they're funny, but what in the world does it do to your confidence level to be constantly moving at the speed of sound? More mistakes happen this way, adding to the "failure complex" or "i'm stupid" emotion. More hasty, angry, frustrated, or over-done reactions happen in this "bullet train" mode and the real question is why? Have we as a society really trained ourselves that fast is the only way to succeed?
The new Hyundai commercials encourage us to "Think About It" and one is about instant gratification. It says "We don't like our job, we get a new one... We don't like our spouse, we get a new one". Then it mentions cars. If we don't like ourselves, can we get a new one of those too? Oh, we try with hasty diets, lose 30 lbs in 30 minutes, make a million in a month, etc. Years of programming and conditioning flat out don't change in an instant. If they did we would all be wealthy, thin, fit, and successful in whatever that means to us, by now.
What kind of expectations are we giving ourselves? Are they realistic? And if they are not, which.... well... they're not.... then what does that do to our level of confidence and ultimately our ability to get anywhere near the goals we are so quickly trying to achieve? Maybe a bit of a slow down would clear our head, help us in our direction, and give us a more objective realistic point of view.
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