If you're guilty about how you're spending your time, or worried you might be a terrible person deep down... don't panic. 1. You're actually not. 2. Join the rest of us, we feel like that too.
This year I decided to leave the "cult of busy". I was finding it like a badge of honor, everyone complaining about how busy they are. Like "how are you, busy?" Is the normal greeting now, followed by sighs and groans and "oh there's just not enough hours in the day". It's such bullshit. Irony is, now when people ask me if I'm busy and I say "not really, I just get done what I can in a day" I worry that they think im lazy, or that I actually am lazy, undeserving of my job, my pay, my one hour of true leisure time a day.
I was literally talking to a friend the other day about how lazy I’ve felt lately. Which I find people are quite dismissive of if on the outside you always seem like someone who ‘does a lot’. So yes, this *hugely* resonates. And the AdB quote made me chuckle.
This year I decided to leave the "cult of busy". I was finding it like a badge of honor, everyone complaining about how busy they are. Like "how are you, busy?" Is the normal greeting now, followed by sighs and groans and "oh there's just not enough hours in the day". It's such bullshit. Irony is, now when people ask me if I'm busy and I say "not really, I just get done what I can in a day" I worry that they think im lazy, or that I actually am lazy, undeserving of my job, my pay, my one hour of true leisure time a day.
I was literally talking to a friend the other day about how lazy I’ve felt lately. Which I find people are quite dismissive of if on the outside you always seem like someone who ‘does a lot’. So yes, this *hugely* resonates. And the AdB quote made me chuckle.
Love this and thanks for sharing. Just not sure if I should be feeling guilty or good for taking the time to read this during my work day.
Ha! The plot thickens