Returning to the Lakota Way by Joseph M. Marshall III

Author:Joseph M. Marshall, III
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2013-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

Light-speed technology will be around for a while, seducing us into believing that everything has to happen fast. For example, there will always be those drivers whose cars creep forward at the intersection, indignantly waiting for the light to turn green so they can hurry to the next intersection and stress themselves out waiting again. There is one essential bit of knowledge every driver has: at some point the light will turn green. No amount of impatience or indignation will make it turn faster. Simple common sense should tell us that there is far less stress in just waiting patiently. As all of my grandparents would say about any situation, “It is what it is.” And while it is better to download a photograph in seconds with broadband than to wait five minutes with dial-up Internet, there are instances when slower is good.

There is a line from a popular movie, a Western, that says something like this: You find a thousand ways of running down your time. The reference is to our lives, the time we each have on this earth. Halfway into my seventh decade I have certainly reached that point in my life when things seem to happen fast. As a matter of fact, much too fast. Grandchildren are born and suddenly, it seems, they are already five or seven years old. A few years ago it dawned on me that I have lived most of my life—most of my time has run down, as it were. If there were some way to slow it down now, I would do that. But, of course, the days, the seasons, and the years will pass as they always have. Therefore it is up to me to savor each good moment and endure the difficult ones in the same way—with patience.

I am reminded of that each time I look at those moccasins sitting on a table.

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