Why do we always use the phrase "in our world" when this "world" we speak of is always a purely subjective one seeing as how each world we speak of is personalized, and one that's personalized based on where we live on this planet and additionally by our own experiences. The world as Earth is, I think, truly two different things for us all. The Earth is actually more inclusive-- more real than the "world" we speak of. What's odd (and also adds to our innate need to separate Earth from world) is how we always try to pin our slowness or frailty on the "world" when we are actually referring to world as Earth; meanwhile, Earth as Earth is continuing to spin around at its own natural speed, unaware of what we are doing. It just keeps moving. I often think we are jealous of our own planet in its ability to continue spinning at a pace it needs to move at given its relationship to the sun. We have no definite relationship to the sun like Earth does (or to ground it a bit more-- like a dog has with its owner), in a sense, we pretend or model our relationship to Earth as Earth has by nature with the sun. Of course, this doesn't exactly pay off for us as human beings since that darn sun of ours just won't call or text us back. Does this mean that as creatures, we crave to be governed by something larger than ourselves? Are we craving slowness or a way to be slowed down? What a secret humbling that would be to see unfold. A dog is the Earth we want to concede becoming.