Taking Your Time

I just finished working on the first 5 letters of the Greek Alphabet, and I am so excited and proud of myself! yet, a small part of me, does feel a little silly because I am taking weeks and months to teach myself something that bible majors learn by the second day of Greek, their first year of Greek. but one thing that I am learning from teaching myself Greek is that...it's okay to take your time. we live in a society, and American society in general, where everything is so rushed and busy and in a hurry. people want to get through college as quickly as they can, hence the 18 hours of classes schedules or all the AP credit, or summer classes, or CLEP tests, etc. people no longer just go for a drive, they have to be going somewhere. it's almost to the point where we almost feel guilty when we are not doing something "productive" in our spare time. but learning Greek, teaching it to myself, going at my own pace, etc, is making me see that it is okay to go slowly, or even super slowly. it's okay to not want to get through something as quickly as possible. it's okay to spend 6 months learning the Greek alphabet. I'm doing this on my own, on my own terms, my own way. and life is a little bit like that. I am coming to see that I want to live my life like that. I do not want to rush through things, I do not want to "get through it quickly" or "get there sooner rather than later." not that i want to be lazy or go so slow i don't move forward or anything like that. I want to take my time in Grad school and not just try to get through it in as few time as possible. I want to get my Doctorate, even if that is another 7 years. why not? it's what I want, and there is no law that says you have to start a "real job" by the time you are X years old.  i know I might not be making much sense, but I suppose I am saying that life may be a highway, but we don't have to go on the fast lane. the slow lane is okay too. to quote one of my favorite songs, "I'm gonna take time my time."