Some people assert that the busy lifestyle is a personal choice they’d made in order to get ahead or give their kids an edge for the future. Others are resigned, saying they feel obligated to live superbusy and fast, as if swept away on a fast-moving tide. “As if you don’t get to choose, busyness is just there,” Burnett says. “I call it the nonchoice choice. Because people really do have a choice.”
