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Some people are always in a hurry to go places and get things done. Other people prefer to take their time and live life at a slower pace. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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People have each pace to do things in their life style. My personally I would like to do everything at slow pace because slow pace is suitable for a careless person like me. If such kind of people do things in a hurry, they will make lots of mistakes and will be late to do things rather than when they do things at slow pace.

Hurrying up is empirically not reasonable for careless person like me. When I was a junior and senior high school, I sometimes overslept and had to prepare to go to school in a very hurry. In this situation, insufficient time did not let me check what kind textbook or other things needed for lecture. Without checking, I never failed to left something at home and usually I was perplexed to notice my serious mistake. It is true that doing things in a hurry saves time physically, but we should remember that if we do things in a hurry, we have to be very keen on everything to do things perfectly in short term. Therefore, careless person who is not good at paying attention do not have to hurry up.

Slow pace gives me enough time to check things or think what to do next. We can do everything checking what we are doing and what we need to do next. Especially if you are poor at do things correctly without enough check, you had better check everything dozens of times. To pay enough attention on everything, we need certain times.

Those who can do everything quickly and "astonishingly" perfectly, might think of people doing things slowly as a slow poke. They think doing things slowly waste time and inefficient. However, this is just difference of pace of life or capacity. If we concentrate on doing things, even if the pace is slow, we can absolutely do things precisely which never wastes time.