One of the things we all seem to struggle with is time or the lack of it. A friend has just moved out of Auckland to a smaller city and recently she made some interesting comments about how we live in a big city. She has found that moving to a smaller city where the pace is a wee bit slower, she finds there is more community and she’s realised that things can be done different ways. She feels in a big city that often we get hooked in to doing things, activities, courses, work etc just one way – the way that we are “supposed” to do it or the way it’s always been done. For instance she has started an organic gardening group. She didn’t go to a course or advertise or anything official. In many ways it wasn’t really planned to start a group but it just evolved. It evolved through having a bit more time to think about gardening, talking to people about concepts of gardening until some people decided to get to gether to talk a little more regularly. Now the group has 40 people attending! A wonderfully organic (mmm good pun!) way to begin a group and swop knowledge and skills. Somehow in the big cities we forget that there is more than one way to be. More than one way to create what we want. We don’t have to wait to be asked or go to a course. We can create whatever we want in whatever way we like. However I think the one thing that us big city dwellers need in order to create is some time to be or to think. It is through creating space that ideas come, thoughts can zoom around and our selves can come back into a balanced place. So being time also needs to be diarised along with every thing else in our lives. It needs to have the same importance as brushing our teeth or client meetings. A bit of a mind shift I know in our busy lives!!
More than one way…