A quote from Slowness

“There’s a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting,” from Slowness by Milan Kundera.

I can’t continue doing a bunch of speedy things but just go a little more slowly. Speed is a pathogen. Live in a speed-laced environment long enough, and before I know it I’m tripping over my own feet and debating a cocaine habit.

Slowness is a result of curating an environment that cultivates slack instead of speed, perpetuates ease instead of urge... See more