26 - Sunday. November 8. 1998 ~ North Shore News “THE preatest luxury you can have is simply to be able to take your time,” a friend said recently, She was right. Her remark set naw pondering on this great 20th century rdule: Why all the hurry and rush? Then [came across an arti- cfe by the venerably wise J.B. Priestley, in which he posed this very question: “People are always telling me what they would do if ont, ihe had more time to d - nowadays, all these petpic simply havent the time. Everything is in such 3 rush. But the queer thing is that all this rushing is supposed to be saving time for us. What is the explanation? Either time itself is shrinking — or we are all going mad.” With speed an essential component of all travel and movement, we have a right to ask just why it is that we should always be in more of a rush than when these things took a long time. Constant hurrying, or wor- rying about the aced to hurry, is an intrinsically modern intemperance that can quite literally kill. Too many people are hurrying and worrying bevond human endurance. Many of our corrosive frustrations — themselves leading to related ills ranging from impatient bad temper and ulcers to actual violence and crime — are clearly caused by our driving desire to make an end of something or other, for what eventual purpose we are seldom clear (otten to make that the end in itself). We work, harass and fret ourselves silly trying to make an end of unfinished business. We are frequently in a blind cold rage to bring about some often unimportant (or even unworthy) end in what we feel is our available time and by our own means — and woe betide anyone whom we feel is delaying us, intentionally or not. “Eternity must laugh at our pretences,” says Robert north shore news ALTERNATIVES Reynolds, “fo be driven by a passion to hurry the end ts to famish our lives of a living present.” “People ina hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. Thev are preserved in a state ‘of perpetual pucrili- avs Erte Hoffer with per What is the reason tor all of this hurry? John Stewart Collis has been putting forward some posible explanations. The 3} yearold believes itis due in part to Our impertest present day appreciation of the simple facts of time and space. Hf we remain completely stauionary in space, We have plenty of time to do what we want. Bur the world offers many facilities for moving, about in space, inchiding our own legs. Few ofus can -— or under our cur- rent system of society, can afford to — ignore these facil- ities. So what happens? “You will spend a large partion of your time on space,” Collis explains, “You will have less time left for other things. You will always be in a hurry since you are obliged to pay for your consumption of space with time. Motion cannot be had for nothing; every inch mast be paid for — with time. We should not be surprised at this, for evers thing commands the just price.” Although he feels chere is no real mystery here, people are surprised, and their failure to understand these simple truths makes them more and more bewildered an nl unhap- py. Perhaps ashe oboe cr whole sovigty oi his ypnce hension. Most serious road acet- dents are caused by excessive speed through space. The deri vers believe -- subconsciously, perhaps ~~ that they are able to cut into time by hurtling through space. They glance at their watch and step on the gas. For once, they teed, they can cheek time's onward rush by simply moving fast, rarely with any real benetit or profit, but all too often with eventual frustration through an instant frittering away of the time apparendly saved at the other apdofthe journey — allre frequently with disaster to themsch cs and others. Similarly, people are always saving that when they move, change jobs, retire or are pro- moted, when their children start school, leave school, leave home, they will have hurry takes more time than patience imere ume, bat they rarely do. In the meantime, they accept muy as a accessary of lite. They tmvariabiy overlook what G.K. Chesterton discov: ered Jong age, that “One of the greatest disadvantages of hurry is that i takes stich a long time.” Robert Aiken ts an interna- tionally known profestonal ote ‘boayes iad ined erie wel elafteacher writer with 40 years’ exprricuce. 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