Remaining Human · the books

Continue.

These reflections assume you've finished Continue..

The question this book opens — how do we keep going, when the world moves faster than we can absorb it? — and doesn't close, because it doesn't close in one book.

A few things worth sitting with

  • Where has the pace of things outrun your ability to take them in — and what have you done with the gap?
  • When you say you're “keeping up,” what is it costing you that doesn't show?
  • What would it mean to continue not by moving faster, but by absorbing more slowly?

Coping gets you through the day. Continuing is what remains after enough days have asked the same thing of you. One can look like the other for a long time.

Read on: Convergence follows the question as it turns.

If you want to follow the inquiry beyond these reflections, there is a next door from here. No hurry. Start where you are.