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Phrase: On the go
Here’s a phrase for all busy people out there and not-so-busy people too – on the go.
Life seems to speed up the older we become.
Don’t worry too much; it’s not just you.
I would say most people are always on the go, either busy with work, running errands here and there or trying to juggle both simultaneously.
The phrase on the go means to be very active or busy.
Where I come from, people use the phrase to ask, “What’s happening?”
When my father was alive, he would phone me while I was living in Australia and ask, “What’s on the go, b’y?”
The problem was it was usually very early in the morning, and he had interrupted my sleep.
There was not very much on the go at all.
As I was saying, time speeds up as we grow older, and the fact we are constantly on the go doesn’t help slow things down.
Many people struggle with this, but my students and I know how to deal with it.
We had it in 2020 as a discussion topic, The Perception of Time.
When you are always on the go and time seems to slip by faster and faster as one day blends into the next, the key is not to slow down but to add new experiences to your life.
Our youth is full of new experiences.
That’s why we have very vivid memories of all the things we did.
So, you can remain on the go yet slow down your perception of time by adding variety to your schedule.
Variety is the spice of life, after all.
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