It seems odd that in a world where our life expectancy has gone up, automation has made tasks quicker and access to information is instant—we’re running faster than ever.

We’re working more hours, packing more in our days and bombarded with messages about keeping up.

As I prepare for another school year, I look at my curriculum packed with enough content to last years, yet the expectation is to fit it in a semester.

It’s known that stress is the conduit for illness (especially the proliferation of cancer cells), but our solution is to suggest paltry activities crammed within an overpacked schedule to combat it.

At what point do we say enough?

A slower pace of life requires less and gives more. I think it’s time we all move towards it and, more importantly, demand it.