I never mindlessly use the word "busy". As far as I could remember in the last 2 decades, the only time I was busy was during Max's illness. Every millisecond mattered and was holding on to those milliseconds since Max's life depended on it.
I think "busyness" is a framing issue. People tend to confuse their obligations of relationships, parenting, work etc., as busy. These are basic obligations we need to fulfill and if we don't then we are sociopaths. The other side of the coin is people overdo the above mentioned obligations; in machine learning terms - overfitting.
As a human being, as a living being on this planet, to be a good person, to be virtuous and to do the right actions - we all have obligations more than being a parent or an employee. Last time I checked there is no Buddha nor Stoics alive anymore. What we have is to learn from their wisdom and act on it now.
This present time is our time. W are the torch bearers for unleashing right actions and being a moral being. None in the past or future can do this. We have to do it. This is the greatest of all our obligations.
The needs of a happy life are very few.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.
- Marcus Aurelius
Most are not even aware of these other obligation leave alone acting on it and instead, they camouflage inside the busyness bubble. I don't think it is going to change anytime soon nor they understand one of the highest moral wrongs leashed by choice.
Some solace from Japanese for my aversion with this omnipresent "busyness":
Nevertheless, I’ve come to understand that I was shaped by a society that valued being busy
But is busyness as a value all that great?
In Japanese, the characters for “busy” are made up of the characters for ‘soul’ and ‘loss’. Being busy is quite literally described as a loss of our soul.
心：soul
亡：loss
忙：busy
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