Making a Cup of Tea, In today’s fast-paced world, it too often seems we have a need for speed: We want to get there faster, receive our information quicker, and our day-to-day activities are often completed in a rush. As we find ourselves racing around more, it seems that fewer of us are taking the time to slow down and enjoy the finer simplicities life has to offer. This haste creates the impression that our lives are almost out of our control, life is swallowing us up gulp by gulp, rather than us savoring life sip by sip.