Søren Kierkegaard

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
-Søren Kierkegaard

You walk past the water fountain on the way to work. You walk past all of the children’s parks, not stopping for a moment to glance at the beauty and the intrigue that are inside these children. However, you do stop to look at all of the other men (or women) that are on the same ladder as you. They are all racing toward one single goal, but in reality, no one person will achieve it. Kierkegaard believes that if you do not slow down when pursuing what you want, there will be no joy in finding it, and you might not even get what you are looking for. By moving so fast that you cannot see what is passing you by, you will miss all of the scenery that is the main part of the trip. Sure the main attraction is at the end, but without the determination and perseverance in the middle, nothing will be learned and you will end up in worse shape than you started up in. As John Ortberg says is his book, hurry is the sickness of our world. If we continue to hurry past things and not see the beauty in what is important, we will have lived a boring life! We will have not lived as God wants us to! God wants us to have joy in our lives, but with hurry there is no joy. When you go after the pleasure that you truly want, and that is right, do so without going at it so fast that you stroll right past it.