The Elves Way

I found it a really interesting to observe how peoples “work”. And inevitably, compared it to how I work.

The way I work have always (and will always be) evolving. But, recently, it’s intrigue me how different it is each individual takes on prioritization.

The Elves and The Humans

If you’ve ever read (or at the very least watched the movie) The Lord of The Rings (or watched any medieval-theme sci-fi movies or any isekai animes for that matter), you must be familiar with the Elven races and the Human races (basically us).

The Elves, are not “lazy” per se. But, since they have longer (like really longer) life spans than humans, they tend to be (what I would call) “slow-moving” creatures. Humans, on the other hand, are more like “get things done” creatures. With a shorter life-span, we in general sought to achieve great things in such a short period of time.

I would not blame the elves for their slow moving ass. It’s just their privilaged[1]. They can afford to deprioritizing things easily, since they can pay for it: with their time.

The Reality

Those analogies start to pop out around me a lot. I try to understand why people choose to do A instead of B. I realized that they simply choose to prioritize A since in their world, A is more important and they can afford it with whatever resources they have[2].

Not gonna lie, often times it feels weird for me like “Why are they putting A as something more important?“. I often doesn’t get an answer for that. But, I simply think that they might be an elf, a human with different background than me, maybe they’re a PSD or even an entirely different creatures.

1. Or maybe a curse?

2. Resources could be anything from time, literal money, energy, attention, etc.