Sometimes If You Think It’s Too Fast, It’s Probably Perfect: Meditation on Speed, Timing, and the Perfection of Now

The hummingbird's wings beat eighty times per second—
too fast for your eyes to follow,
yet perfect enough to suspend
ruby throat against morning light,
defying gravity with invisible grace.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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I watched my daughter learn to walk,
her first stumbling steps across hardwood floors
while my heart hammered warnings:
*slow down, be careful, you'll fall*—
but she was already running
toward tomorrow's adventures,
her laughter echoing off walls
that couldn't contain her velocity.

The speed of growing up
terrifies parents who want to freeze
each precious moment in amber,
but children know something we forget:
momentum is life's natural state,
and hesitation is the only real danger.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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The emergency room doctor's hands
moved with practiced urgency,
sutures closing wounds
while families worried
about the rushed pace
of healing.

But trauma surgeons understand
that time is tissue,
that swift action
saves more lives
than careful deliberation.

In crisis,
speed becomes mercy,
and hesitation
becomes its own tragedy.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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My grandmother's last words
came in a breathless rush,
forty years of unspoken love
tumbling out in five minutes
before the morphine took her voice.

I wanted to tell her to slow down,
to savor each syllable,
but she knew something
about endings that I didn't:
when time runs short,
love runs fastest.

The speed of grief
catches us off guard—
how quickly
hearts can break,
how fast
tears can fall,
how swiftly
silence fills
the spaces where
voices used to be.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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Lightning splits the sky
in microseconds,
illuminating landscapes
we never knew existed
in the space between
thunder and recognition.

The photographer captures
the exact moment
when ordinary becomes
extraordinary,
when the shutter's click
freezes eternity
in a single frame.

Speed of light,
speed of sound,
speed of realization
that some moments
are too precious
to last longer
than they do.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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The jazz musician's fingers
dance across piano keys
in improvisation
that sounds too rapid
for human comprehension,
yet each note lands
exactly where it belongs
in the mathematics
of spontaneous creation.

Music moves at the speed
of inspiration,
and inspiration
doesn't wait
for permission
or preparation.

The best songs
are born
in the breathless space
between heartbeats,
when melody
outpaces thought
and fingers
find truth
faster than
minds can follow.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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Falling in love
happens at terminal velocity—
that moment when
resistance becomes
surrender,
when the heart
stops calculating
and starts
free-falling
into the unknown.

We tell ourselves
it's too soon,
too quick,
too reckless
to feel this much
this fast,
but the heart
has its own timeline
that doesn't consult
the careful mind.

Love at first sight
isn't a fairy tale—
it's physics,
the speed at which
two souls
recognize
they belong
to the same
constellation.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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The cheetah runs
seventy miles per hour
for only thirty seconds,
but those thirty seconds
are enough
to feed her cubs,
to survive another day,
to prove that sometimes
brief intensity
matters more
than prolonged effort.

In nature,
speed is survival,
and survival
is the most perfect
thing of all.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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The entrepreneur's decision
to quit the stable job
and chase the impossible dream
felt reckless to everyone
who preferred
the slow safety
of incremental progress.

But dreams have
their own metabolism,
their own urgency
that doesn't wait
for perfect timing
or complete preparation.

The window of opportunity
opens and closes
at the speed of courage,
and courage
moves faster
than fear
can follow.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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The summer storm
builds and breaks
in the time it takes
to finish a cup of coffee,
transforming drought
into abundance
with the kind of
sudden generosity
that makes desert flowers
bloom overnight.

Nature doesn't
second-guess
its timing—
rain falls when it falls,
seasons change when they change,
and everything grows
at exactly the speed
it needs to grow.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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The child's first word
comes without warning,
"mama" or "dada"
bursting from lips
that yesterday
only knew silence.

Parents spend months
waiting for this moment,
then when it arrives
it feels too sudden,
too quick,
as if childhood
is already
speeding away
from them.

But language
has its own
perfect timing,
and words
arrive exactly
when they're
meant to be
spoken.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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The artist's brush
moves across canvas
with unconscious speed,
creating masterpieces
in the time it takes
critics to decide
what art should be.

Creativity flows
at the pace
of inspiration,
and inspiration
doesn't wait
for permission
or approval.

The most beautiful things
are born
in the space
between
thinking
and
doing.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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This moment—
right now—
is moving
at the speed of light
toward memory,
toward history,
toward the past
that will define
who we become.

We can't slow it down,
can't pause it,
can't replay it
or revise it.

All we can do
is trust
that the universe
knows something
about timing
that our anxious minds
cannot grasp.

Sometimes if you think it's too fast,
it's probably perfect.

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So let the hummingbird
beat its wings
eighty times per second.

Let the jazz musician's
fingers fly.

Let love
arrive
like lightning.

Let children
run toward
their futures
with reckless joy.

Let the moment
move at whatever speed
it needs to move.

Sometimes
if you think
it's too fast,
it's probably
perfect.

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