7. AI, LIVING BETTER WASN'T ABOUT LIVING FASTER

For a long time, we were led to believe that living well meant moving quickly. That making the most of life meant filling our schedules, accelerating our pace, and responding to everything without delay. However, over the years, a simple yet profound truth becomes evident: living better wasn't about living faster . Speed ​​promises efficiency, but rarely offers fulfillment. When everything is done in haste, experience is diminished. We go through days without truly living them, encounters without feeling them, and decisions without fully understanding them. We live a lot, but we live little . Living better involved learning to slow down. Not as a renunciation, but as a conscious choice. Slowing down allowed us to observe, listen, and understand. Many things that seemed urgent lost their importance when given time, and others, seemingly small, revealed their true value. Haste also distorts our relationship with ourselves. It demands immediate results, imposes constant comparisons, and generates a persistent feeling of inadequacy. Living better meant freeing ourselves from that pressure and accepting that not everything needs to be resolved immediately. In human relationships, slowness proved to be an ally. Listening without rushing, being present without a clock, and sharing without a schedule strengthened bonds that haste would have weakened. Time spent with presence was worth more than any number of hurried encounters. Living better wasn't about doing less, but about doing with purpose . Choosing what deserves attention and what can wait was a form of practical wisdom. It's not about rejecting action, but about restoring its depth. Over the years, we learn that life isn't enjoyed by rushing, but by being present . By being attentive, available, and mindful. The quality of the experience depends less on speed and more on presence. In the end, living better was understanding that time isn't an enemy to be defeated, but a space to be inhabited. And that the true richness of life wasn't in how far we traveled, but in how we traveled .