I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.

More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible.  The default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “So busy.” “Crazy busy.” It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint. And the stock response is a kind of congratulation: “That’s a good problem to have,” or “Better than the opposite.”

We’re addicted to busyness and dread what we might have to face in its absence.

The ‘Busy Trap’ [read]

(Source: wilkinsky.us)