Have you noticed how life speeds up the older we get?

As children, we couldn’t wait to grow. Summers felt endless, boredom lingered like an old friend, and the clock seemed frozen. Now — days blur into weeks, weeks into years, and suddenly we are breathless, wondering where it all went. Alongside this quickening, we see anxiety, exhaustion, and depression woven into the fabric of almost every life.

But the truth is — time hasn’t changed. It is still twenty-four hours, sunrise to sunset. We are the ones who changed. We plugged ourselves into the frenzy of modern life — chasing things that don’t matter, scrolling endlessly, buying what we don’t need, competing with people we don’t care about, living in a cycle of scarcity and distraction, absorbing unnecessary information in bulk.

And this, too, is by design. The system thrives when you are busy, disconnected from your essence. The more distracted you are, the more you consume. Meanwhile, your nervous system has become so wired for survival that true rest feels foreign, almost unbearable. Even when energy arrives, we rush to deplete it, scattering it on tasks, trends, or to-do lists. Almost addicted to the state of exhaustion.

Somewhere along the way, we crowned productivity as our highest virtue. Multitasking became the new religion. Stillness — a threat. And yet, your nervous system was never meant to carry this weight. It is wired not for the chaos of many things, but for the sacred simplicity of one.

Being is not laziness. Being is medicine.

It is the reset your body aches for, the quiet your mind longs for, the nourishment your soul remembers.

In stillness, your nervous system has the chance to process emotions, to integrate lessons, to return to its natural balance. Yet when we don’t allow this process to unfold, we become overloaded. So much so, that the moment we finally slow down, a flood of emotions rushes in — and instead of leaning into it, fear makes us reach for distraction once again.

And so, the cycle continues… until we choose to honor the healing power of simply being. Only then we can eliminate the clutter and get clarity of mind. 

Think about it: when was the last time you truly felt caught up, complete, whole? Most of us can’t remember. We’ve become prisoners of our own thoughts, bullied by the endless whispers of “do more, get more, be more.” And so the loop continues — until sleep comes only when every message is answered, every corner tidied, every box checked.

The antidote is the pause. The space between tasks. The quiet moments that feel empty but are, in fact, full — full of life, full of breath, full of soul. Yet slowing down is scary and feels foreign, so you’ll need to take it slow, train yourself to remember to be, so you can finally move at the speed your nervous system is capable to sustain not what the world dictates.

When you allow yourself to rest in that space, time itself begins to soften. It no longer races against you. It bends to your awareness. It expands with your presence.

Time is not running out.

Time is an illusion.

Yours in the stillness, 

Ava