"Seeming to do is not doing."
Being busy in the twenty first century is the new cool. If you’re not busy, you’re at best closest to what’s called a loser. Kicking it back to them high school vibes - if you want to be part of the cool kids, you better start acting like one. And if even that is out of your reach, at least play the big pretending game.
Apparently, in today’s society, everyone loves to brag about the fact that they’re a busy bee. Yet the irony remains that priding ourselves for our mindless busyness doesn’t magically remove the profound laziness the majority of us cultivate within when it comes to doing emotional work. So we keep on doing this busy thing, all the while pushing aside the number one task that should be on our daily to do list : introspection. Dismissing the necessity for diving into the hard work of self-awareness is an excuse of choice. After all, we’re too busy to take on new endeavours, even if those endeavours score extremely high on the scale of significance.
We could give one less fuck about significance. We stroke our egos because we’re rich materially, all the while pushing aside the fact that we’re poor af spiritually. Confirmation bias is always here to save the day, especially when it comes to saving ourselves from looking into the mirror to see who we really are underneath our layers of superficiality.
