Being Busy
Saying “I'm Busy”
That's a Good Red Flag, that's a good opportunity to reflect and to ask yourself, what am I feeling in this situation, what am I doing?
I have a back catalog of podcasts in Apple Podcasts using a station so I can control which shows I want all episodes of, and that backlog is miles long. Sometimes I'm listening to podcasts from years ago when they are topics that don't age out quickly. (Aka: Thought topics, vs. Tech News podcasts that I have un-queue within a week or two as outdated).
This podcast this afternoon, How to Keep Time: How to Look Busy, from The Atlantic: How to Age Up, was a great listen that got me to start thinking about the kneejerk reaction in conversations or small-talk of “I'm busy”, or a line I need to work on using much less posted as a question “Keeping busy?” ... implying like this show, that the only valid societal answer to that is yes.
I expect I need to sit, and maybe journal on this subject more before I have any more to say personally, and to review what I'm doing to shine a light on anything that is being busy just to maintain appearance, or busy without honest review on the value returned.
I will point out it was very interesting to hear the guests research details that for North America, the view is the hyper-busy people are the wealthy and most successful, because they have lots to do (whether or not it's the right thing to be doing). Where in their comparison against Italy, the opposite is the case, those with the most free time to pursue hobbies or passions have that free time because they are successful, their success means they don't have to work or be busy.
More to come, trying to return back to regular writing (and uploading some older archives), instead of being busy elsewhere!