Curry No Hurry
Why Slowing Down Can Be the Most Intelligent Thing You Do
“Another meeting in three minutes. Right on time—this time.”
To the women who rush:
I see you. Eyes scanning the clock. Breath shallow. Bag packed. Mind already five tasks ahead. You think it’s ambition. You call it productivity. But beneath that acceleration lies a quiet erosion of something essential: your presence.
🚌 The Bus Is Neither Early Nor Late
Let’s begin with a deceptively simple metaphor: the city bus.
It does not cater to your timeline. It isn’t flustered by your sprinting feet or your glance at the clock. It runs, predictably or unpredictably, according to variables it doesn’t control: traffic, weather, mechanical rhythm. It cannot be hurried, nor can it slow for sentiment. Your urgency is irrelevant.
Life functions the same way.
Nature doesn’t bloom on command. You can’t fast-forward a tomato to ripeness or coax a flower to open before it’s ready—so why do we treat ourselves like machines with one-speed settings?
We imagine ourselves as exceptions, attempting to override biology with ambition. But we are subject to the same universal laws of timing as the stars, the tides, and the seasons.
⏳ Faster Isn't Better
Speed is seductive. We glorify it: fast cars, fast downloads, fast careers. But haste often masquerades as mastery while quietly dismantling it. What is gained in immediacy is often lost in depth.
Fast food, stripped of nutrients.
Fast fashion, devoid of quality.
Fast wine, usually cheap.
Fast money, rarely stays.
Fast love, empty of roots.
Under pressure, we rush tasks and miss nuance. That’s when the typos happen and when the slip-ups cost more than time. High-performance athletes, world-class chefs, and even artisans all know the secret: mastery takes time.
🧠 Rush Accelerates Decay
Biologically speaking, urgency is a stress response. Cortisol surges. Telomeres, the protective caps on our DNA, shorten. Cognitive function diminishes. Emotional regulation falters. We become brittle, reactive, and fatigued, even as we perform peak productivity.
The irony? The very systems we’re trying to optimize, such as our health, our careers, and our relationships are the ones most degraded by our haste.
Premature aging isn’t merely about wrinkles. It’s about the withering of joy, the erosion of attention, the subtle grief of a life experienced too fast to be fully felt.
⏰ Time Is Not the Enemy
Balance is a skill that is deliberate, cultivated, and often misunderstood in a culture that worships burnout.
A well-paced life aligns with circadian wisdom and neurochemical flow. Serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin—none of these thrive under chronic pressure. They respond to rhythm, nourishment, safety, stillness. In other words, slowness.
The slower you are, the more precise you become. The more still you are, the more you can hear. The less you chase, the more magnetism you build.
🌿 Curries, Character, and Careers
Excellence, in any domain, is a slow burn.
You cannot microwave character. You cannot expedite wisdom. You cannot download integrity.
A fulfilling career is a cumulative endeavor. Sustainable health is the result of quiet discipline. Affirmations without consistency are noise.
And even curries, like people, reveal their complexity only when allowed to simmer.
Rushing doesn’t get you there faster. It just gets you there depleted.
👑 You Are Not Behind. You Are Becoming.
This is not a call to complacency. Nor a romanticization of delay.
This is a reframe: from frantic striving to sovereign unfolding.
You do not need to prove your worth through exhaustion. You do not need to chronicle every achievement on an impossible timeline. The best version of you is not found in the hustle but in the space to breathe.
You deserve time. Time to create well. Time to love well. Time to live deeply and without apology.
🥄 So, Girl...
Unless you need a quick curry—don’t hurry.
You’re right on time.