“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day. ”
This appealed to me from The ‘Busy” Trap in the New York Times because… well, I have been so busy! But wait, I don’t mean that as “a boast disguised as a complaint” as author Tim Kreider suggests. It has been reality (work, kids, blah, blah!). Actually I aspire to the “idleness” Kreider describes that is his life. He says it is possible by choosing time over money.
How smart. Perhaps, if idleness became the new status symbol (“sure I’d love to get together!”), then we’d all be a lot happier.
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