if LIFE is a JOURNEY, what SLOWS you DOWN?

Question

or we are all in TREADMILLS, not really going anywhere?

Answer 1

First question~zipping along the freeway & seeing a great field of poppies, & stopping to enjoy them? (Illegal in Calif.to pick!); pulling in to a farmer's produce stand for some sweet cherries & a friendly chat? Taking a side road where red winged blackbirds rise & fall like a delicate black & red veil. & tip the grasses? Or, turn around when you come to a sign that says "Dead End" & go somewhere else--get out of the car & lift a log off the lumber road so you can pass, (if you choose to go on). What are we in such a hurry to get TO?
Second question, I don't think we're on a treadmill--we never really know where we're "going" anyway, do we? I think it's better that way--

Answer 2

If life is a journey, then what is the hurry? I slow down on purpose to savor the moment, the view, and the company.

It's a treadmill if you let it become so. In the end, whether we go around in circles, or move steadily toward our dreams and goals, is strictly up to us. There is always a choice.

I made it a point a while back ago to take full responsibility for "everything" in my life. I blame no one - or no thing(treadmills).

Event + Response = Outcome. I don't control most events/circumstances, but I have full control of my responses. If I don't like the outcome, I change the response. What I can't expect is for different outcomes from my same responses. That is a definition of madness.

Answer 3

I do think life is a journey and like most journey's you learn along the way. What slows me down is stopping to smell the rose, or to enjoy the scenery. I'm in no hurry to finish my journey but to enjoy every moment, whether it be a marriage, a birth, a new home, a sunset, children playing......I'm not here just to procreate and work. That would mean I live on a treadmill really going nowhere. Now maybe the end result for everyone may be the same, happiness, health & money, but for the most part we have our own journeys, our own paths to lead.

I'm here to learn, laugh to love as much as I can so if that all slows me down, then I'm fine with it.

Answer 4

If life is a journey what slows me down is the good stuff. You know this harkens back to stop and smell the roses. So, yeah, lately when I find myself slow down it's to stop and watch and take in as much as I can, the sights, the smells, the moments....beautiful are the things that flash by in an instant mostly unappreciated. Treadmills or for lab rats, we're all going somewhere. We're all going forward. But, it doesn't have to be at lightning speed. Make a choice to linger as you get out of the car or enter your house or talk with someone. Take a moment to be in that moment. We're only given them one at a time. You can't get them back, so live in each one as much as possible and beat the treadmill. And if you find There's no quality in the moment in which you slow or seemingly stop time, it's time to rethink your plan. It's the only true power we really have.

Answer 5

Life is more like an amusement ride than a journey. There are only two speeds Go! and stop. Some sit through the loops, twist and turns in all serenity while others raise their arms and shout at the thrill of it as even others grasp the safety bar in shear terror. The real difference tough is that on this ride you pay when you get off.

Answer 6

Nothing slows me down - but myself (sometimes I can't get out of my own way). It can be a journey or it can be a treadmill - or it can be both at different times - depends on your perspective and attitude.

Answer 7

We all get stuck on treadmills at some point... the bright side is we have the ability to jump off them at any time!!!
I'd say it's those "treadmill moments", where we're stuck on a path that leads us nowhere, that slow us down the most.

Answer 8

I think life is more like a venture - an undertaking of uncertain outcome. What slows me down is my thoughts, my actions and the paths I have chosen. The treadmill would be my choice; my indecisiveness or unwillingness to move forward (my comfort zone).

Answer 9

I have always thought of life as a journey, Enki, along which I seem to have always stumbled upon numerous junctures, crossroads and detours. These are the nodal points of my life where I must decide on the next path that I should take. Oftentimes, I found myself even making temporary camps at the roadside of these nodes, uncertain, and always hoping that another traveler would pass by to give me hints on what I should expect on the next road ahead.

So I guess you could say that it is indecision, which would cause me to pause along this journey that I am traveling. But then again, if not for these pauses, I would never have taken the time to slow down from the speed I was traveling to take well-deserved rests and appreciate all that this wonderful universe has to offer. All these beautiful aspects of life that I have foolishly taken for granted in my haste to reach that far away destination; a destination where I could not even be certain I could reach if I were to suddenly be driven off from this precarious road of mortality…

So, everyone, slow down, please. What’s the rush anyway?

Answer 10

Illness can slow you down. Or an injury.

If anyone thinks they are on a treadmill, going nowhere, they really need to examine their life!!