Honestly, I was almost addicted to urgency for a while. I think it might have come with the nature of my job. I was a project manager at a social media agency. Clients email you, you email back immediately, they respond again. And that's how it goes on for the entire day and before you know it, your 25 emails in, continuing to go back and forth. It almost destroyed me, having someone else's urgency dictate my day. What did I do? Unless something was truly urgent (and let's be honest, there never really is in social media marketing) I would only respond ONE time each day. I would craft the message but then not hit send until the very end of my day.
Wow! I mean this is hitting me right when I needed to read it most. I feel like these days we are so centered around immediate gratification, when we decide to slow down and take time with something or to savor a meal or just really enjoy something - a guilt almost creeps in. I’m taking a page out of your book and following your eloquent words:)
Amazing read. We are constantly hustling without even being sure where we are going (if there is ever a final destination) and what we want (because we mostly run towards what we are supposed to run towards). Urgency is making us rush through life without living and experiencing it.
When I am old, I want to remember how I enjoyed my coffee and the long walks, not my income growth every year.
Omg, yes to all of this!!! I love this post and your writing style.
These words moved me, especially:
"i’m choosing hobbies i’m bad at. crafts that don’t impress anyone. projects that will never see the inside of an etsy shop. i’m letting myself paint badly, knit lumpy scarves...
i’m choosing to answer questions later. not because i’m being coy or strategic. because some questions deserve to sit for a while. because “i don’t know yet” is a perfectly legitimate ...urgency makes everything binary: yes or no, now or never. but real life—good life—needs more maybe." ✨ Poetry.
Your words flow so well and express so completely!! Thank you! Have I mentioned how much I love milk and cookies, literally, and as your title? Also, love your e.e. cummings style. 💞🌹
“i was too tired to keep sprinting for prizes i wasn’t even sure i wanted.”
you put my feelings into words. thank you 🫶🏻
What an absolutely delightful read.
“I’m choosing to build a life that doesn’t feel like an emergency” —new mantra, thank you so much for this piece 💕
Honestly, I was almost addicted to urgency for a while. I think it might have come with the nature of my job. I was a project manager at a social media agency. Clients email you, you email back immediately, they respond again. And that's how it goes on for the entire day and before you know it, your 25 emails in, continuing to go back and forth. It almost destroyed me, having someone else's urgency dictate my day. What did I do? Unless something was truly urgent (and let's be honest, there never really is in social media marketing) I would only respond ONE time each day. I would craft the message but then not hit send until the very end of my day.
Wow! I mean this is hitting me right when I needed to read it most. I feel like these days we are so centered around immediate gratification, when we decide to slow down and take time with something or to savor a meal or just really enjoy something - a guilt almost creeps in. I’m taking a page out of your book and following your eloquent words:)
Amazing read. We are constantly hustling without even being sure where we are going (if there is ever a final destination) and what we want (because we mostly run towards what we are supposed to run towards). Urgency is making us rush through life without living and experiencing it.
When I am old, I want to remember how I enjoyed my coffee and the long walks, not my income growth every year.
Omg, yes to all of this!!! I love this post and your writing style.
These words moved me, especially:
"i’m choosing hobbies i’m bad at. crafts that don’t impress anyone. projects that will never see the inside of an etsy shop. i’m letting myself paint badly, knit lumpy scarves...
i’m choosing to answer questions later. not because i’m being coy or strategic. because some questions deserve to sit for a while. because “i don’t know yet” is a perfectly legitimate ...urgency makes everything binary: yes or no, now or never. but real life—good life—needs more maybe." ✨ Poetry.
thank you. ❤️ this means so so much to me thank you
I really needed this, it’s beautiful. Thank you 💕
Your words flow so well and express so completely!! Thank you! Have I mentioned how much I love milk and cookies, literally, and as your title? Also, love your e.e. cummings style. 💞🌹
I so appreciate you writing this, absolute gem I needed to read.
Great text! I'm absolutely in love on your writing. I love to receive the newsletter on my mainbox. Keep going!
Love this one. “Choosing the smallness of an ordinary day” which is, in many ways a luxury. And this is a reminder why it is so important.
needed this today. thanks🫶🏻
Excellent. I've been practicing this for some time and it's the bees knees. Great read. Thanks for sharing.
this is what growing up in Lagos feels like, everyone is always in a hurry to go somewhere, do something, be someone