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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
I agree. There seems to be such a drive to fill one's time to capacity...
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Agree completely.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
What I notice more and more, is that many people seem to be taking a huge amount of pride in how busy they are...
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Never understood this either. Why would I *WANT* to be so busy I have to almost fly from task to task or appointment to appointment?
The one place I experience that is at work: whatever you do, however you do it, it's never fast enough. Faster, more faster, fasterderder is the motto. At some point, it will only start to cause errors, so you need to re-do the work, and in the end, you'll end up being slower.
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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
Is that why I can settle into a novel just as easily as I always have? No idea, really, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.
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IT is exactly the case, because you feel you actually HAVE the time to settle into a novel. Many people can't, just because they feel they are "wasting time", or because "they have stuff to do." Those are the ones that, at some point, will have a burnout.
Now that we have computers, e-mail, cars, and so on, we CAN do more in one day, so we WILL do more in one day, up to the point of absurdity. I can remember my grandma saying: "Huh? That bus isn't late." It was 5-6 minutes late, but she remembered a time in which bus arrival and departure times stated to be 12:30 actually meant "somewhere between 12:25 and 12:40," so she arrived at 12:20 and expected having to wait up to 20 minutes.
It's completely unfathomable to the current day commuters/travelers. If the bus sign says "12:34", they'll be at the stop at 12:33, and grumbling at 12:35 (or, grumbling if they missed the bus that was 21 seconds early).