The coronavirus pandemic has been with us for more than a year now and it has taken a huge toll on our lives. Nevertheless, it seems there is also a bright side to the current situation. Since the majority of us work from home, we don't have to rush to work in the morning traffic, and we have more time for things like cooking, reading or going into the countryside. In other words, the current pandemic has forced us to slow down. Simply because we just do less and have more time. If we, however, looked back to our pre-pandemic lives, maybe we would find out how big a role busyness played in them and how the concept of slowness was often regarded as a synonym for laziness. Well, it probably still is.
Viktor Suchý is a teacher, writer, literary theorist and one of the biggest advocates of slowness in Slovakia who has also co-founded a place called Kabinet pomalosti, or Cabinet of Slowness in English. In the following interview, he will discuss the concept of slowness with Romana Grajcarová.
Viktor Suchý
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When Carl Honoré, the author of the book In Praise of Slow was asked why people live so fast, he answered that the world had become a giant buffet of things to do, consume, experience and we rush to have it all. That was, of course, before the pandemic started. Over the past year, we have experienced a life in which the giant buffet has been closed for most of the time. Now the question is: When the pandemic is over, are we going to keep the current slow pace or are we going to go back into our pre-pandemic fast-paced lives?
But you don't have to rush to answer.
