It has simply become standard to respond to the conventional salutation of "Hello, How are you?" with some version of the refrain "I am so busy!" Unfortunately, we say this to one another with no small degree of pride, as if our exhaustion were a trophy and our ability to keep going a mark of real character. As theologian Wayne Muller has pointed out: "The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others." Sadly, to be busy, to be unavailable, has become the model of the successful life.
— Al Gini, Wayne Muller, The Importance of Being Lazy by Al Gini