The Fast Lane: A Haibun

Haibun

The Fast Lane

Youth loves speed. Everything has to happen, yesterday.

I remember how impatience lived somewhere inside my stomach. It made itself felt with a butterfly type movement. Once something was begun, it had to be completed, brought to a rapid conclusion: the goal had to be achieved! Until that goal was achieved anxiety would not go away, it colored everything.

This meant though that what could have been a beautiful or fulfilling experience was just a flash of color. How many opportunities lost because I was in too much of a hurry to allow a natural poetic growth take place. Speed was too important and sometimes that suffocating urge to get things done, lead to disaster or worse.

too fast too furious
chocolate’s best slowly melted
and life’s less short

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Written for Haibun Thinking: Week One

The prompt:

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

– Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

26 thoughts on “The Fast Lane: A Haibun”

Excellent haibun Georgia and welcome to Haibun Thinking. I did enjoy this haibun and haiku very much.

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Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 07:56 said:

Thanks so much Michael! Lovely prompts. I wish I could have come up with a story for the pony friends. 😉

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I think this is a great post. It’s true, many of us make mistakes because we are trying too hard to hurry things through.

Thank you for joining us in our first week.

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Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 08:07 said:

Wonderful initiative and loved the prompts..are you then a cooperative? 🙂

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- Al on January 23, 2014 at 08:34 said:
  
  There are four of us who put it together, although it is me that puts everything together, I do with the help and suggestions from the other three 🙂
  
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  - Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 11:11 said:
    
    Cool. I love cooperations! 🙂
    
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    - Al on January 23, 2014 at 13:18 said:
      
      🙂 Makes it somewhat easier
      
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    - Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 16:57 said:
      
      Oh there’s no doubt about that…and I see you’ve taken on the livery of my local ducks :-D!
      
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    - Al on January 23, 2014 at 17:37 said:
      
      I thought I would go for Mallard instead of Wellard 😉
      
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    - Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 06:43 said:
      
      lol…Do you know them well? The lady Mallards here have a really funny call, sounds like a hysterical laugh…love ’em!
      
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    - Al on January 24, 2014 at 08:23 said:
      
      When I was walking with my sister the other day, there was a couple of drakes swimming up the river. As we went around the corner, there was a hen, or duck if you like, quacking after them and it sounded so funny. Almost like she was saying “wait! come back!” 😆
      
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    - Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 10:13 said:
      
      I’m not good with species either fauna or flora in English…the 40 some years of accumulative info is mostly in Italian, so I have to go to translate and in a commenting situation it gets long….so a female duck which is a hen (?) in English is a papera in Italian the drake (?) is a papero…simple no?
      I do so like to ducks…they can be really very funny! In this season, when we don’t have (m)any tourists the birds like ducks, swans and coots take over Lake Garda. I took a few photos day befor yesterday, I’m going to have to process them and do a post on Through the Eye of Bastet! 🙂
      
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    - Al on January 24, 2014 at 13:10 said:
      
      The male is the drake, and the female is the hen. So much easier in Italian 🙂 Change the last letter and you’re done lol
      
      I look forward to seeing the photos of the lake
      
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    - Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 16:34 said:
      
      Here you are: http://bastet1952.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/weekly-photo-challenge-family/
      
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    - Al on January 24, 2014 at 18:03 said:
      
      Thank you 🙂
      
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    - Bastet on January 25, 2014 at 05:20 said:
      
      🙂
      
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Welcome to Haibun Thinking 🙂 Great haibun and I will say if we are all honest, we all have been caught up in going instead of slowing down to enjoy life and those around us. Reminders are good.

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Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 16:55 said:

Thanks for the welcome and the warm comment! 🙂

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Nicely done ….i really liked the accompanying image too…

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Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 06:44 said:

Thanks, it was a fun prompt!

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Often life is like a roller coaster; you’ve explored that in a most excellent way.
I’ve been there and done that – now I attempt to stay off roller coasters 🙂

I played here:
http://julesinflashyfiction.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/haibun-january-plays-whisper-down-the-lane/

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Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 06:54 said:

Thanks for your comment. I was relating my own youth of course, but what I’m seeing in young people now as well..as you say a roller coaster! Thanks for your coment and link! 🙂

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Very wise – I really liked your haiku. The unexpected reference to chocolate made it a sweet pleasure..

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Bastet on January 25, 2014 at 08:41 said:

Thanks Suzanne, glad you liked it…I remember someone saying to me once that going fast all the time is like chewing chocolate and bolting it down, you don’t enjoy it’s flavor 😉

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I was going to say that! A very clever/nice moment when you brought the melting chocolate in. I have to say I agree with you. You focused in very nicely on a real ‘truth’ or issue.

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Bastet on January 25, 2014 at 16:59 said:

Thank you very much for your comment…yes, chocolate is a very interesting as a metaphor. 🙂

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summerstommy2 on January 23, 2014 at 07:44 said:

Excellent haibun Georgia and welcome to Haibun Thinking. I did enjoy this haibun and haiku very much.

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- Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 07:56 said:
  
  Thanks so much Michael! Lovely prompts. I wish I could have come up with a story for the pony friends. 😉
  
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Al on January 23, 2014 at 08:06 said:

I think this is a great post. It’s true, many of us make mistakes because we are trying too hard to hurry things through.

Thank you for joining us in our first week.

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- Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 08:07 said:
  
  Wonderful initiative and loved the prompts..are you then a cooperative? 🙂
  
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  - Al on January 23, 2014 at 08:34 said:
    
    There are four of us who put it together, although it is me that puts everything together, I do with the help and suggestions from the other three 🙂
    
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    - Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 11:11 said:
      
      Cool. I love cooperations! 🙂
      
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      - Al on January 23, 2014 at 13:18 said:
        
        🙂 Makes it somewhat easier
        
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      - Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 16:57 said:
        
        Oh there’s no doubt about that…and I see you’ve taken on the livery of my local ducks :-D!
        
        LikeLike
      - Al on January 23, 2014 at 17:37 said:
        
        I thought I would go for Mallard instead of Wellard 😉
        
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      - Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 06:43 said:
        
        lol…Do you know them well? The lady Mallards here have a really funny call, sounds like a hysterical laugh…love ’em!
        
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      - Al on January 24, 2014 at 08:23 said:
        
        When I was walking with my sister the other day, there was a couple of drakes swimming up the river. As we went around the corner, there was a hen, or duck if you like, quacking after them and it sounded so funny. Almost like she was saying “wait! come back!” 😆
        
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      - Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 10:13 said:
        
        I’m not good with species either fauna or flora in English…the 40 some years of accumulative info is mostly in Italian, so I have to go to translate and in a commenting situation it gets long….so a female duck which is a hen (?) in English is a papera in Italian the drake (?) is a papero…simple no?
        I do so like to ducks…they can be really very funny! In this season, when we don’t have (m)any tourists the birds like ducks, swans and coots take over Lake Garda. I took a few photos day befor yesterday, I’m going to have to process them and do a post on Through the Eye of Bastet! 🙂
        
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      - Al on January 24, 2014 at 13:10 said:
        
        The male is the drake, and the female is the hen. So much easier in Italian 🙂 Change the last letter and you’re done lol
        
        I look forward to seeing the photos of the lake
        
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      - Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 16:34 said:
        
        Here you are: http://bastet1952.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/weekly-photo-challenge-family/
        
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      - Al on January 24, 2014 at 18:03 said:
        
        Thank you 🙂
        
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      - Bastet on January 25, 2014 at 05:20 said:
        
        🙂
        
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Anja on January 23, 2014 at 11:12 said:

Welcome to Haibun Thinking 🙂 Great haibun and I will say if we are all honest, we all have been caught up in going instead of slowing down to enjoy life and those around us. Reminders are good.

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- Bastet on January 23, 2014 at 16:55 said:
  
  Thanks for the welcome and the warm comment! 🙂
  
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paulscribbles on January 23, 2014 at 21:05 said:

Nicely done ….i really liked the accompanying image too…

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- Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 06:44 said:
  
  Thanks, it was a fun prompt!
  
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julespaige on January 24, 2014 at 00:33 said:

Often life is like a roller coaster; you’ve explored that in a most excellent way.
I’ve been there and done that – now I attempt to stay off roller coasters 🙂

I played here:
http://julesinflashyfiction.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/haibun-january-plays-whisper-down-the-lane/

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- Bastet on January 24, 2014 at 06:54 said:
  
  Thanks for your comment. I was relating my own youth of course, but what I’m seeing in young people now as well..as you say a roller coaster! Thanks for your coment and link! 🙂
  
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Suzanne on January 25, 2014 at 08:17 said:

Very wise – I really liked your haiku. The unexpected reference to chocolate made it a sweet pleasure..

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- Bastet on January 25, 2014 at 08:41 said:
  
  Thanks Suzanne, glad you liked it…I remember someone saying to me once that going fast all the time is like chewing chocolate and bolting it down, you don’t enjoy it’s flavor 😉
  
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Hamish 'Managua' Gunn on January 25, 2014 at 16:50 said:

I was going to say that! A very clever/nice moment when you brought the melting chocolate in. I have to say I agree with you. You focused in very nicely on a real ‘truth’ or issue.

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- Bastet on January 25, 2014 at 16:59 said:
  
  Thank you very much for your comment…yes, chocolate is a very interesting as a metaphor. 🙂
  
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