Pace and the ecosystem

Sometimes things don’t move as fast as we’d like. 

In some of these circumstances, there’s nothing we can do to influence the pace except exercise our patience and be prepared for when it occurs.

In other situations we will be able to speed things up, but that doesn’t mean we should.

It’s easy to forget that the universe doesn’t revolve around us, but all of us are part of a bigger ecosystem and pushing for things to go faster will always put more stress on the ecosystem. 

Sometimes that will be ok and sometimes it won’t.

The only way to be able to tell the difference is to be sensitive to the ecosystem around us and of the other needs it is serving. 

In a restaurant, it might be ok to stress the ecosystem a little to speed something up. In a hospital, maybe not so much. 

If we’re ignorant of the ecosystem (or we don’t care), then it’s likely our desire for pace is creating a lot of stress – some of which might be quite damaging.