Life at throttled speeds

Isolation, am i right? :)

Everything has a cost right, life is expensive, inflation at the speed of resource depletion.

Now that everyone is ‘home’ and gorging on the fast as light interconnects of the world everything is feeling the burn of sheer data rates.

Flashing led’s twenty four hours a day as 10gb cards heat up moving petabytes of information around the globe. I wonder if those cables undersea are warm? Random thought.

Photo by Kumpan Electric on Unsplash

Of course, we’ve seen a rapid change to the world now that everyone is home, the good and the bad, it’s exposed who we are, what we need and want more than ever, I never even considered out of the list that I’d see a pandemic in my life time.

How wrong i was on that outcome.

In many ways i believe it’s opened peoples eyes to what it means to be living as a human in these times. Crazy in the lottery of life that we still managed to have survived this long the way we just gorge on the planet.

Six weeks into forced isolation has really exposed weaknesses in the day to day systems that we all took for granted. They have been stretched and pushed to the max.

And yet, we have seen a 99 year old man here in the uk raise £20 million pound for the NHS from hundreds of thousands of people in less than a week.

Where there is a roadblock and a throttling of resources or inaction there is another line of enquiry opening up to fill the gap, kinda resourceful us human beings when we need to address the balance.

And there is where we are right now, things might feel limited, slow-down, plans adjusted, life bandwidth adjusted and curbed for a moment, but’s it’s only for a relative small time.

Often times when things are limited, resources at a minimum i find solace in what i have the capacity to do with that. It’s like optimising with what you have.

It seems slow, cumbersome, limiting in what you can achieve. We want everything fast, now, delivered, instant. But at what expense that we don’t see?

We’ve seen it happen on a global scale recently with coronavirus ‘testing’ — how the speed of not doing that fast has caused mass deaths globally.

You can’t use the same logic for a pathogen right, it’s one goal is to multiply like little factories cranking out products to an expected end user.

You don’t get to control progress of things we don’t understand. You can mitigate something, slow it down, divert it but ultimately what is meant to be will reveal itself.

It’s in those moments that you adapt, traffic shape yourself around those obstacles until you are met with someone else’s routed plan.

Maybe you’ll then go on a journey together, combining efforts together, maybe with better insights and more considered.

It’s a great time to really ask yourself what it is that calls to you now, what you want to be remembered for, what you feel has merit not only to your life but for the next generation after us.

Have a great weekend, don’t let current limitations be what throttled your good intentions and forward thinking.

__humble x