The World Is Moving Too Fast

Photo by Saketh Garuda on Unsplash

I’m sure I’m not the only person who feels this way….

At this point, I’m not solely speaking metaphorically. Earth is literally spinning faster than it ever has before.

The normal length of a day is 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds. But in recent years, the Earth’s rotation has accelerated, shortening some days by milliseconds. “Since 2016 the Earth started to accelerate…this year it rotates quicker than in 2021 and 2020.”

So our days don’t just feel shorter. They are shorter.

Wars, climate change, COVID-19, monkeypox, insurrections, police brutality, mass shootings, catastrophic weather events, food shortages, gas prices soaring, food prices soaring, a recession…

All of this is going on at one time!

What’s next?

Let’s think about this, and we don’t have to go back far. When COVID-19 first emerged, in 2020, there was nonstop media coverage. Now, people are over it, even though there are still 1,192 people dying daily from the coronavirus. There should still be media coverage about this.

I remember when mass shootings got significant air time, and while the shooters don’t need, or deserve press, the news cycles shouldn’t move on so quickly from these tragedies. When they’re not given proper airtime, people tend to move on…