NYTimes.com: If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become 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.”
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This article really helped me understand why I feel so weird when I'm not busy. Whenever I finish working on a show and suddenly have a lot of free time to do things, it always feels wrong because I'm so used to having no time at all to do things. Ironically, all of this extra free time actually causes me to procrastinate more on the things I need to do because it seems like such an abundant resource when it's not being eaten up by tech. What I think happens to a lot of people as well is that they end up not knowing what to do with themselves when they're not busy, and it only leads them to seek out things that will keep them occupied. On the flip side, too much "busyness" often leads to complete exhaustion as people struggle to seem productive and to accomplish as many things as they can in their scheduled time. It's a cycle that I unfortunately am all too familiar with.
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