Slowness Wears Heavy Boots and Dances Anyway

Slowness is a skill, writing that breathes, slow productivity, deskbound spirals, clarity in the margins, intentional nonsense, reflective rambling, bloggy as a state of mind, time with texture, calendar sass, gentle rebellion, micro time rebellion, dancing with doubt, moods not metrics.

• It’s called laziness.
• Indecision.
• Poor time management.
• A threat to your colour-coded calendar and your productivity app’s ego.

But Bloggyness would like a word. Or twelve. Slowly spoken. Possibly with a biscuit.
Because slowness is a skill, just not the sparkly kind.
More like the muddy-boots, dodgy-dance-move, emotionally committed kind that refuses to be rushed.

You know the feeling: everyone’s sprinting, the world’s whirring, and you’ve just finished rereading the same paragraph three times with deep artistic intensity and mild confusion.

That’s skill.
Not failure.
Not delay.
It’s craft in motion.
Or more accurately, craft in very slow, questionably coordinated motion.

It says: “I’ll get there, on my terms.”
It moonwalks through deadlines with one eyebrow raised.

Slow Acts of Rebellion I’ve Committed (Willingly)

• Skimmed an old email for emotional closure, not clarity. Closure won.
• Took 17 minutes to choose a typeface. Ended up with the same one. It felt earned.
• Rewrote a title five times until it felt like it winked.
• Refused to delete a metaphor that made no practical sense but had excellent vibes.
• Padded one paragraph with a gentle tangent to give it emotional lift.
• Let a half-written sentence sit untouched for 24 hours. It came back wiser.
• Left a comment that just said “hmm.” It felt like enough.

Each choice? A small act of refusal.
Each pause? A polite, cheeky protest against the pace.
Each snack? An existential moment, lightly salted.

People will say: “Don’t overthink it.”
Bloggyness gently disagrees.
Think it. Overthink it. Spiral if needed.

Make calendars nervous.
Make your task list jealous of your mood board.

Slowness isn’t inefficient; it’s an emotional strategy.
It’s precision with humour.
It’s breathing deeply while your inbox throws shade.

• “I’m not wasting time, I’m marinating.”
• “Deadlines are suggestions written in pencil.”
• “My creative process includes pacing dramatically and sighing with intention.”
• “This layout will be felt, not rushed.”
• “Slow is not my weakness. It’s my aesthetic.”

Whatever we do next, we’ll take our sweet, skilful time.

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