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To stop.


In this fast paced, busy world where cancelling appointments, invitations, rendezvous owing to having convinced ourselves that we have insufficient time, has become a norm; we even find ourselves even having insufficient time to stop. We’re always on motion; we simply, live a life of sempiternal motion. How often do we stop to think, to assess ourselves, to have an intimate colloquy with ourselves and our own thoughts? Even in the road, there is a stop sign and traffic lights to remind us that life is not only about motion. 

We have become so quick that ego has managed to easily obtain a hold on us. Ego, is so powerful that it enmeshes our subconscious minds and dictates our decisions and end up altering our personalities and also offering us new toxic traits. We’ve become so consumed by ego that we even fail to perceive people as they are, we fail to see the good in people’s deeds owing to ego, which makes us so abysmally subjective. We have become so quick at moving our thumbs on our smartphones’ screens but we never stop to think about nor assess the things and information we transmit to other users on the internet, before posting nor sending them. Hate and discrimination moves swiftly on the internet vis-à-vis love and understanding. The same goes with the real world. Nobody ever stops to think whether the words they utter to their interlocutors are kind, true nor necessary. 

Even new drivers don’t even stop whenever they see the stop sign, especially when there’s no other moving traffic. 

It seems, we have convinced ourselves or have embedded in our subconscious minds, the idea that only motion is equivalent to progress. Stopping has been mostly associated with stagnancy. We often fear that stopping would put us precariously close to the danger of being perceived as failures or the others might think we’re stagnant. This mentality has created slaves of sempiternal motion out of us. We have become a generation that devoutly believes in spending every hour being busy, albeit it is a bunch of frivolous activities. We have become the generation that invests its efforts in activities that kill time or push time, instead of partaking in activities that often require us to stop, evaluate, assess ourselves and our progress; activities that impel us to use our time sparingly to ensure productivity is achieved.

The world comprises so many quitters, owing to the sempiternal motion mentality. We have become enormously emotionally attached to the idea of “only motion equal progress”; therefore, with this mentality, it means if things reach a halt then it means they are no longer working in our favor, it means we can no longer continue; and quitting becomes our only escape plan when things are no longer going our way. Simply, because we have deviated our focus from the idea of stopping.

Stop to monitor your thoughts, goals and progress; stop to monitor your feelings nor emotions before reacting.

To move, one needs to stop…

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