"Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life..."

“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.”

- Tim Kreider,  “The ‘Busy’ Trap” via The New York Times (via tellmefive)