People spend a lifetime hustling, building, and saving to get to a place where they can (finally) move slow. Most call it retirement.
And this is the big envy of the un-retired. Trying to get to a place where they, too, can move slow. And spend their days lounging instead of hustling, enjoying rather than building, and spending rather than saving.
But moving slow isn’t an experience reserved exclusively for retirement. Many of us have simply been brainwashed to believe so. And moving fast has simply become an unconscious habit.
…And that is the crux of the issue.
When fast becomes habit, the days go by at a blinding pace, life energy feels constantly depleted, and vegetative states are sought after where screen time prevails and brains surrender. Which is no wonder we find ourselves daydreaming of the days when we can vegetate for entire weeks—months even—at a time.
But existing in a vegetative state isn’t what makes time jealous.
It’s when we can deliberately slow down our day, while our life energy is still high from recharge, and we’re able to actively enjoy the present reality… that is what really makes time jealous.
Why?
…Because each moment is being savored.
And to the rushing, absent-minded, exhausted person who’s too busy trying to get to retirement… the sight of that is something to certainly be jealous of.