Busyness is no Badge of HONOR
In our times self-worth is guaged in hours of busyness. Busyness is synonymous to industriousness, to being efficient and hard-working. The opposite is of course idleness, lethargy, neglect which is to be avoided at all costs. So far so good. We would all agree to the utility of hard-work, study and perseverance towards any goal. But, when, this obsession with working hard, laborious study, anxiety of meeting deadlines, of being productive gets out of control it has the opposite effect. Being a workaholic does not guarantee good performance or even desired result. It merely means you are putting in extra effort unnecessarily, paradoxically undermining your hard work. But we are so caught up with this busyness syndrome that it plagues upon our time with our families, our need for 'me-time' which so frequently isn't met, and leisure is so not a priority that its seen as frivolous and worthless. This lack of attention, this want of 'free' unhindered...
