Busyness

[firecat]

I often feel like I don't do enough. Yesterday I was beating myself up for it pretty badly, and then my brain kicked in and I said to myself, "Self, you have a bad cold and you did an hour of paying work, three hours of volunteer work, a couple hours of socializing, and an hour of knitting today. IT'S OK THAT YOU ALSO PLAYED A BUNCH OF TRAINYARDSo

Comments

[gmdreia]

I'm so tired of trying to negotiate other peoples' busy-ness to have a social life or to bond romantically with anyone, that I'm considering leaving the very state. I'm in a flirtation with someone out of state right now and it's the first time I've talked to someone in years who had time to talk to me regularly and wasn't flaunting how busy they were. Even in personal ads here, people cram the ad with all of these billion activities that they do as if that makes them look cool. It's almost as if the measure of social class is how many places you have to be besides your job. I'm looking for people who are laid back and approachable, and have not found that in anyone here in Cali.

It just seems impossible to really get to know anyone unless you're lucky enough to be stuffed into some kind of regular context with them (and those kind of situations - usually work - mean that who you're thrown together with, is generally pure dumb luck).

[e4q]

busy is not a virtue.

fact!

[hitchhiker]

the clarke quote sounds far more like the musings of a science fiction writer than something bubbled out of a bong! the person commenting on it clearly wasn't too familiar with that sort of sf.