On Being Busy

I hope you have time to listen to today's FunCast. I know how busy you are, and I hate to intrude. But if you can find the time, you might find yourself amused, if not bemused, to hear me say things like:

Busyness is one of those primal problems ground into our very adult and grown-up identities by the way we used to play house and school and now get to do for real.

Remember when you were a kid playing you were not a kid? Remember when you first learned to look busy, and then learned again, and then over and over, since you were a kid growing up, in playground, classroom, office?

Remember how utterly convincingly busy you became?

Well that's the problem. Not time. Not deadlines. It's that we've all become too good at it.

Read the entire article here.


from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith