"Hurry Up"

Yes, we live in a world where INSTANT is the lingo of the day. Arrive at the restaurant for more than half a minute, "How come the waiter has not attended to us yet?" After orders taken, look at watch, "It's already 10 minutes for crying out loud, how come the 1st dish is still not out yet?" Hahaha!~Not forgetting instant 3-in-1 coffee / Milo, etc. Having said all that, we also do things in lightning speed, haha~! Even our baby crawls like a bullet trainBut with all the hustle & bustle of the day, we have learnt to relax as well for extremism is never good but in all things we need a balance so moderation is the answer here. As the new phat word goes, "chillax"!~ Haha!~

to me i think that if I hurry then I have to wait. just like hurr up and wait. and I have done alot of that altho I realy dont hurry I usually have to wait for others

Hurry up is not in my life anymore like it once was. I'm so slow gettin aroud to ever thing i do i couldn't hurry up if someone told me to, lol.

oh yes.. i also head this word countless times before, our parents let us hurry up in studying so we will work..always hurry hurry hurry but we at times forget to stop and smell the roses along the way.. but i stopped doing so. most of the time, i stop what i do and play with my kids and my huby would come home with a messy house hahaha but i know he knows my reaons, life is short and we stop and smell the flowers.

As soon as I noticed this post of yours I really hurried up. Though we do not feel more or less all people are busy and therefore in hurry. Their are certain occasions when either we ask somebody to hurry up or they ask us to hurry up. The flight door close soon and hurry up. Train is leaving the station and so hurry up. Guest are almost on the door and you hurry up to face them. And so and so forth. This "hurry up' seems to be meant for those who are lazy and lethargic. And the time is fast hurrying up leaving you second by second older and therefore we have so many things to accomplish before we sleep and before we sleep.

The word hurry is always using as command to somebody or to yourself. Hurry up to yourself if you are in short of time even to other people. But if you are always on time, well planned for everything, scheduling yourself, be cool you can avoid it or lessen of using such word. Sometimes it is helpful but sometimes it create troubles... see you around

Personally I sometimes think we as human beings can be the worst enemy for this, and always telling ourselves to hurry up, or something going on in our life to hurry up as well. Maybe it is for our time at work to go a little faster so we can get off and go have some Fun, or a child to get out of school and move on their own, or something special in life to happen for us. In reality I think sometimes, it would benefit us more if we could learn to slow down some and not let our lives be in a hurry. It will help to improve your heart, your mind and even give some much needed yrs. back to your life as well.

Hello Zandi. Well i added a few EXTRA sayings to your tags :) Here is an interesting one - quote by Chuck Fishman in Early Edition (the show where Gary Hobson got tomorrow's newspaper, today and tried to save the world daily): "The trick is to assume your life is going to work out. Of course, it never does, so you do the next best thing: you take it one disaster at a time." Or how about what Garfield said ?: "If you wait long enough. Everything comes to you..." Another fun one as we should enjoy life the way it is, not keep trying to rush through it.

that is a terrible problem ive had lately. all my life ive been able to hurry and get things done. but now with my health problems if i try to hurry im very sorry for it. either i will have trouble getting my breath or i will get terrible pains. its just really hard to teach myself to slow down now. wish id started learning it sooner. yes we need to learn now to slow down.

Since I have grown older I notice that time is in a great hurry. Today is the first day of the week and by the time I get have my duties done it will be the end of hte week again. I use to hurry, but now I'm hurried why is that?

When I was young a loooong time ago I used to be in a hurry about every thing and I just remember my best friend! she used to say why hurry? if you hurry you will die any way...and if you don't you will die any way...so either way it really does not matter! so... now a day I Am not in a hurry at all!

You are right, Zandi. This same words had been ringing in my ears since from my childhood time. My parents always repeat this words whenever they saw me too slow in doing my daily things. Even my teachers always informed us to complete our daily home-works faster and spend more time to revised our studies. When i grown-up and started to work, even i ever heard my boss request me to quickly finished-up my assignments and pass to them. Seems like, this magic words never able to disappeared from our life. We will always get pressured whenever we are in the slow lane of life.

As long as I have my priorities right ,I do not have to rush.What happens is that while we are living life ,mostly relaxed, we have responsibilities of the family, so there is a lil bit of hustling occasionally.

One of life's frustrations is that our timetable is rarely the same with God. we are often in a hurry when God isn't. We may feel frustrated with the seemingly slow progress we are making in life. Remember that God is never in a hurry but he is always on time.

Ideally, I would have liked to live in the slow lane, if money permitted. Since that’s not happening any time soon, I have to rush about…’hurry’ as you say… at a frenetic pace from 5am to 12 midnight, multitasking (to save the money) and also working full time to bring in the cash. Whenever I have the time or have an extended leave to enjoy, I do things at my own pace (meaning, I don’t do much at all, only laze around)LOL… this brings me to the thought that if we never did hurry about anything, wont we all become a bunch of lazy people with no particular aim in life!!!

When people tell me to hurry up I tell them I can do the job quickly, or I can do the job correctly, but I can't do both. Their choice! That usually gets my point across.

HI Zandi![b] Another very good post[/b]! Hurry is the word, which makes us do things in a hurry. The moment someone tells us or if our own mind tells us to 'hurry up', we start doing things quickly. However, it is also said - "If you do anything in hurry, you are bound to commit mistake(s) as devil force will come into play" ...........lol ! (This saying is basically in Hindi, which I have translated here). We should execute our job(s) as quickly as possible, however, in our hurry to catch the deadline, we should not ignore the finer points and should not commit mistakes. Because if we commit mistakes in a hurry, we will have to re-do the entire job and this way we will waste double of our time.

Yes, I would agree that it is in most cultures in this day and age to live fast and achieve, achieve, achieve, as soon as possible. I was very much like that until I came into Zen and started practising medition and developing patience, which is far more healthy and less stressful, and surprsingly, a lot more gets done when I am patient! _Derek

There was a time when I was in a hurry all the time. Speeding here and there, impatient while waiting in line, always rushing to get to the next place/task/event. That came crashing to a halt when I had children. I had a son, then 17 months later gave birth to twin boys. Having 3 children that close together forced me to slow down. 3.5 years later, I had another boy. With 4 young children, I was ALWAYS waiting for someone, or something. Still am, actually. I started asking myself why I was in such a hurry. I really didn't have anywhere I NEEDED to be at any certain time, and trying to hurry a young child is often an exercise in frustration. Now I drive the speed limit, enjoying the moments. I (usually) wait in line patiently, and am gracious if someone is taking a while. There are still times when I feel impatient (waiting on my 1st grader to tie his shoes), but I try to step back and keep my priorities in line.

I think I'm not always in hurry, but I always keep in pace. Hurry won't make me get everything, except if I'm so ambitious, yet unfortunately I'm not. Sometimes, we must hurry if the surroundings become faster than we are, but sometimes also, we need to slow down in order to judge any chance or prospect between our surroundings. I will say that hurry is good for you to expect to finish quickly, but you will get drained. In other side, slow is just for someone who need some easy life, enjoying surroundings to learn some process. It's not good also. But keep in pace is very good when you consider your own conditions.