#busy-culture

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Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

People who realize at 63 that they've been calling themselves busy for fifteen years often discover the more accurate word is unwilling, and busy was just the version that didn't require them to explain anything - Silicon Canals

Busy functions as a socially protected refusal that hides unwillingness and prevents follow-up questions.
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