So.

The last time I wrote here something it was December last year.

I noticed that I was really occupied with work, my mind was and still is continuosly looking at job tasks and deadlines. And I needed and need something else where my mind and soul can freely think and put notes and thoughts down.

I opened my personal diary. Yes, I do have one. Actually two. And noticed some sentences jotted down 4 years ago, in a Park in Bruxelles, Belgium

I was at that time contemplating a tree. Like the one on the top pic above.

Nothing special. Just a tree. Its branches stretching in the sky, its leaves falling on the floor during the autumn breeze, its stillness. And I asked myself some questions.

Are we, as a society, moving too fast? Forgetting how to think and which direction is actual the right one to take? Why does a tree, calm and always in the same place, seem to me to have grown more than I did by moving all around?

Technology is everywhere nowadays. I do work as well in the tech space.

Speed here is what matters. Shipping, building, selling - as fast as the machine itself can do.

But, sometimes, I feel that all this speed is getting us to be more stupid than before (and there is some research that can confirm that).

Why do we want the things we want when other living things on this planet have resolved more problems than us by just being silent and stuck in the ground, in a place, forever, without moving? Like a tree.

The reflection that I want to make here, and I thought long about it, is that we are, collectively, moving really fast—like ants that have each day to ship more—but in contrast to ants, we do not have the social movement as a group.

We also lack being grounded. We lack nowadays a social and human ecosystem.

And this is deteriorating ourselves, internally.

Society is an ecosystem of individuals, atoms. If atoms are not able to bond together they crash. And when they crash…