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March 30, 2005
Slow Down
Musing on the meaning of "Taking It Slow." This is something I should understand; after all, I'm a fan of Slow Food, Slow Money... And yet, as someone with a tendency to run full force in whatever direction I happen to be heading at the time, I clearly don't have an innate understanding of what Taking It Slow means at a personal level. I'm told to do it all the time, by people and colleagues with whom I'm apparently moving too quickly. One step removed, advice givers are big fans of Take It Slow. However, without clarifying details, the phrase strikes me as totally meaningless.
I suspect that Take It Slow can generally be translated into Back Off, and here's where I get confused. How much to back off, and in what ways? If the person chose to say Take It Slow instead of Piss Off, is it safe to assume that there's some Good contained within the Too Much/Too Fast? If so, how's a well-meaning person supposed to know what to keep on doing, and what to cut back? And how's a person to know if Take It Slow really does mean Piss Off? Oy. Here here for Clear Requests.
Posted by Elizabeth at March 30, 2005 10:33 PM