> I feel the world has become too fast. Too restless. Too demanding. We don’t say it, but there’s always this quiet pressure we all feel. A pressure to know all

> I feel the world has become too fast. Too restless. Too demanding. We don’t say it, but there’s always this quiet pressure we all feel. A pressure to know all the latest trends. The latest fashion. The latest tech. A pressure that creates a subtle fear inside our hearts. I agree with the general premise, just not the details like the above. Long before trends, fashions, tech entered my life, I became acutely aware of my brevity in this (likely one and only) life. That has been pressure enough, coming from within, to make the most of it. I guess I have not yet been able to shake that. There are things, like fishing for example, that I suspect I might enjoy. But I see feel the time for fishing is when I am too old to do other things. FWIW, I am retired now and spend my days working on one project or another (or several). Perhaps I am not enjoying life as much as I could be … if I could just shake off the anxiety that the sand is running through the hourglass. My cats sure seem to not care a wit.