Time seems to move slower. Your life grinds to a halt. You become restless and fidgety.
Our society cares a lot about speed and efficiency. ‘You snooze, you lose.’ ‘The early bird gets the worm.’ No one likes ‘slow and steady wins the race’. We want speed, we want efficiency, we want results.
When there’s no change, it seems we’ve become irrelevant. Apps, phones, social media platforms are constantly updating so they wouldn’t fall behind. Even when updates are unwelcomed, at least it generates discussion and conversation – you wouldn’t be forgotten.
We’re also a culture of instant gratification. When we want something, we want it now, which is shaping us to become annoyed and irritated at the slightest pauses in our lives. Our wants and ‘needs’ become the centre of our attention, demanding others to cave to our desires.
Recently I started reading a biography of New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. She is an incredible woman and I respect and admire her leadership.
There s nothing insightful to say that she s someone worth taking leadership lessons from. She is a great role-model for all people.
I don t want to talk about Ardern today. Instead, I want to shine a spotlight on the person who was instrumental in Ardern s ascension to Prime Minister. I didn t realise this until I started reading Ardern s biography (although this was not a secret at all!).
Just less than two months before the election, then Labour leader, Andrew Little, resigned to allow Ardern, who was the deputy-leader at the time, to take position as Labour s leader. The rest is history.
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A promotion? A new car? Recently engaged? Cute baby photos everywhere?
Envy keeps tabs on people’s lives and our happiness invariably fluctuates depending on what’s happening to them. As I write this, I see the irony in envy: our happiness depends on people’s (un)happiness.
Envy comes in two stages. The first stage is when you want what other people have. It tugs at your heart to put yourself in their shoes. To imagine what it’d be like to have what they have, to live the life that they live, to post pictures of what they post on social media.