Is it more important to move fast, or to get where you want to go? Isn’t it better to move slowly in the right direction than quickly in the wrong one?

We learn to rush in school, if not before. I never understood why school children have to answer test questions in such a hurry. Wouldn’t it be good to give them time to figure out the correct answer instead of panicking them into wrong guesses?

I wonder if the children learning online at home these days are able to do it at their own pace. Online learning has its own stresses. I hope time pressure is not one of them.

Our culture prizes the race to “get ahead.” Get ahead of what? Well, poverty maybe. People are rightly afraid to make too little money in the US. Since Reagan began to blame poverty on poor people, the American safety net has become more hole than net. Millions are finding that out right now.

Life is not a contest. It’s not a race. Every life has the same finish line and few of us know when we’ll reach it. Whatever you thought you earned or thought you owned, you can’t bring it with you over that line. The only thing we know for sure remains after we’re gone is the effect we had on the people around us and the places we’ve lived.