An explorer was travelling through the immense forests of the Amazon in South America.
He was looking for possible oil deposits and was in a great hurry. For the first two days, the natives he had hired as porters adapted to the fast and anxious pace that the white man demanded for everything.
But on the morning of the third day, they stood silent, motionless, breathless.
It was clear that they had no intention of setting out again.
Impatiently, the explorer, pointing to his watch, gesticulated and tried to make the leader of the porters understand that they had to move, because time was pressing.
– Impossible, replied the man, calmly. These men have walked too fast and are now waiting for their souls to catch up with them.
People of our age are always moving faster. And they are restless, dazed and unhappy, because their souls have fallen behind and can no longer catch up with them.
