Slowing the Hell Down

Samantha Wallen
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

I want to write a poem about slow. How slow is how you know the movement of time spoken in cosmic terms. How all this talk about the acceleration of consciousness, expanding dimensions, exponential technology development is really about breaking through the barrier of the mind and the dimension of time and coming to rest in eternity.

Oh how our view would change if we knew this was forever…

In my poem about slow, I’d deftly say what Einstein said, “time and space are not conditions of existence, they are models for thinking,” but use my own words of course. And I’d add his line that, “time is what prevents everything from happening at once,” in a poetic way so I could convey a true understanding of now.

And somewhere along the way, I’d say what I really mean to say: I’m slow and I’ve made it a problem.

Sometimes it takes me weeks to read a short book, hours to respond to an email, years to write a chapter of words. Sometimes it takes me a decade to make a decision. It’s not because my mind is slow, oh no! It’s just that when something comes in, it gets caught in the wind of being connected to all things at once.

You see I can take a tree and make it a bee that’s connected to a knee that lives in outer space and is a hinge of God’s grace and also shapes the curve of a dime because the seed of that tree was born in the ground of antiquity where silver was one of seven precious metals. I like to wander like that. It’s time consuming, and I’m okay with that.

But that just doesn’t cut it in this world of instant gratification, constant connection, and the aggressive progression of productivity. I try to keep up, but it’s just not my proclivity. Everyday there’s a longer feed, a bigger need, a faster speed at which the whole world is moving.

Yet as far as I can tell, slowing the hell down is what most people actually want to be doing.

So I figure I’ll start with the poem, continue to roam, and wait for the accelerated world to reach me. I know how to step out of line and let go of time and someone just might want to learn that from me. Perhaps I’m ahead of the rest and am simply the best at winning the race in perpetuity.


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Samantha Wallen

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Founder/CEO WriteInPower, poet, writer, book coach, social justice disciple, steam-punk time traveler tending to where value, core wounds, and brilliance meet.

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Est. May 2016. 100 vulnerable words, one day at a time. Every day.

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