The "sped up" life, its causes and dire consequences

We became lazy from lack of activity, sick from the over-abundance of food, and desensitized from the overstimulation our senses get exposed to everyday.

We feel lost, purposeless an tired, but it is not a fatigue that comes from physical exertion, it is a fatigue caused by overwrought nerves, overactive brains and overworked stomachs.

We feel tired when we get into bed, and we feel tired after a full night of sleep. 

Our eyes look lifeless from mindlessly staring at the screens of lifeless contraptions without which, we feel cut from everything else. 
We stand helpless, as more and more technology insidiously penetrates into our lives and slowly hijacks bits of it.
Without realizing it, we are losing our ability to control our lives. 

It only takes a bleep, a ringtone or a blinking light for us to drop everything and run heedlessly towards an electronic devices, as if controlled by an invisible malevolent puppeteer. 

We proudly walk the ailes of supermarkets, where goods come from a laboratory rather than a farm, picking up products enticingly wrapped in colorful packagings, designed to lure our brains towards them.

Our decision to buy is based on short-lived and manufactured wants and needs. 

We see the blatant results of that rush for consumption in overflowing storage rooms and attics, in bursting closets and dusty, unwrapped gear.

To get in touch with the reel needs of our bodies a sound nervous system is needed. The "rushed" life caused by overstimulation, stress, overconsumption and overwork, has robbed us from our basic rights, quiet, tranquility and inaction, which are essential to a well-functioning body.

The elevated pedestal onto which activity, production and movement were ushered, makes the "slowest" amongst us look like bottom-feeders dragging the society down to a retrograde state. 

Our bodies have rythms, it takes a certain time for our food to get digested, it takes a certain time for our wounds to get healed, it takes a certain time for our body to grow, speeding up any of these processes may feel like progress, but it only helps deteriorate bodies and brains not designed to function at such an alarming cadence.