Since young, we have been trained to move along with the fast pace of the city life. Day in day out, you see people rushing during peak hours, dashing for buses and trains and packing lunch back to office (which I do almost everyday).

It seems like our mind has been trained to adapt to fast activities. We tend to nag and grumble when the queue we are standing seems to be slower than the rest. I'm sure everyone will agree with me that such incidents have ever happen to you be it in airports, fastfood outlets or even NTUC.

Having spent my entire life in this fast little city, it suddenly dawned on me that should this be the way I want to live my life forever?

Everyone always say... Life is short!

All of us know this at the back of our head but unfortunately, due to the fact that we need to make our ends meet, pay this bill, pay that installment, we have to work our lungs out. Round and round in this never-ending rat race.

In the midst of entangling in this race, we have failed to slow down our pace and enjoy the beauty of life. To make things worse, almost everyone you see day to day is putting on a mask. Politics, back-stabbings, arguments, miscommunications, shits from colleagues, extra work from bosses, we are so used to them that unconsciously, it leads to adding more stress to our already pressurized life.

I really hope that one day, I can spend perhaps a year or two of my life in a slow pace environment. A place where everyone greet everyone, where everyone smile at everyone. No pressure, no stress, no mind games, only sincere care and concern.

Maybe I won't get used to it initially, I'll most probably get impatient every now and then when I encounter someone taking their own sweet time to do something but over time, I'm sure I'll learn to appreciate life even more than just wake up, rush for work, knock off, head home, rest, eat and sleep only to wake up to another routine cycle again...