Not On My Time: A Closer Look At Being Busy

When (and if) there is intentionality behind these things, it’s usually someone else’s. Someone else benefits from you toiling away without raising your hand to ask for justification. Someone else is telling you how to scratch the itch of wanting to feel accomplished. “Someone Else” can be so enormous and impersonal that they don’t even know you exist. One can, and many people do, fill an entire lifetime being someone else’s version of busy.