Business

Someone who looks extremely active, whose diary is filled from morning till night, who is always running to answer messages and meet clients may appear the opposite of lazy, but secretly, there may be a lot of avoidance going on beneath the outward frenzy. Busy people can evade a different order of undertaking. They are practically a hive of activity, yet they don't get around to working out their real feelings. They constantly delay the investigation of their own lives. They are lazy when it comes to understanding particular emotions. Their busyness may be a subtle but powerful form of distraction. Our minds are in general a great deal readier to execute than to reflect. They can be rendered deeply uncomfortable by so-called large questions: What am I really trying to do? What do I actually enjoy? Who am I trying to please? By contrast, the easy bit can be the running around, they never pausing to ask why, they repeatedly ensuring that there isn't a moment to have doubts or feel sad or searching. Busyness can mask a vicious form of laziness. Our lives might be a lot more balanced if we learn to re-allocate prestige, putting it away from those with a full diary, and towards those wise enough to allow for some afternoons of reflection. We should think that there is courage not just in traveling the world, but also in daring to sit at home with one's thoughts for a while, risking encounters with certain anxiety-inducing or melancholy but also highly necessary ideas.