The slow movement is about slowing down and having richer relationships
with people. Not just our partner, but our entire family, our friends,
our workmates, our neighbours, and anybody else wemeet. How many of us don’t know the
names of our neighbours?
We are all one
A rich relationship is one where there is a deep connection based on loving-kindness. Some people think it takes time to develop a rich relationship and a deep connection. Yet a deep connection with another person can be made in minutes. It is all about where we focus. Do we focus on ourselves, or do we focus on the other person? When we focus on the other person, and that is, when we truly focus on the other person, we make a deep connection.
When we make a deep connection we make rich relationships and …
Rich relationships make rich lives
When we connect to people in our community or neighbourhood we also connect to place and to the slow movement. In the fast-lane lives people don’t have time to slow down and talk and listen to others. Either they drive to work in stressful traffic, or they catch a bus or train and spend the duration of the journey reading a newspaper or trying to avoid eye contact with their fellow passengers.
Stopping for a chat
Why do people do this? What are they afraid of? What are they doing that is more valuable and rewarding than talking and connecting to people?
This fear or denial of other people’s existence is seen in the current attitude to older people in western countries. It seems that so many times, once a person reaches their latter years they are ignored at best, and at worst subjected to discrimination and abuse.
Other
cultures have maintained the respect and sense of responsibility for
their aged that we have in our cultural past. Why is this? Is it a
result of our crazy desire for 
Just Talking individuation?
Or is it because we have believed the propaganda the media has fed us
about youth, looks, health etc, that has led to some of us placing
value on these things and conversely placing no or less than no value
on aging, wrinkles/saggy skin, declining health etc.?
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Posted by: Jérémy Dumont
Posted on: levidepoches.fr/contagiousideas
Source: slow movement.com
