On "Busyness"

In order to restore a sense of fun to our lives, we have to take back time. As in today's thought for today from an article I wrote, called, oddly enough, "Busyness:"

Sometimes, I feel I have too much time. So I make myself busy. It's like I have to fool myself into feeling purposeful, so I make myself busy. And even though the purpose I'm filling has nothing to do with any purpose I care about, I'm being busy. I find purpose in my busyness, even where there is none. Especially where there is none.

When I'm between jobs, in fact, that's what I miss the most, almost. Someone to look busy for.

Sometimes, even between jobs, I feel I have too little time. So I make myself busy looking for something to get busy doing.

Oddly enough, you don't really have to be busy. Now that you are an adult, you can stop pretending that you are. Really. You don't have to look busy for anybody anymore. Everybody 10-20 years younger than you believes that you are an adult despite how unbusy you try to look. Now you can look like you're having fun again. Like you looked when you were a child. You can afford to enjoy and to look like you're enjoying.