Being busy
Busyness has become our badge of honor. We wear exhaustion like a trophy, as if running ourselves empty is proof of our worth. Productivity is treated as the highest virtue, and constant activity the ultimate measure of success.
Day after day, we sprint from task to task: eating while answering emails, attending meetings while scrolling headlines, talking to friends while texting, filling every quiet moment with noise. But stop for a moment and ask, what am I really running toward? Or running away from?
The truth is that busyness has become a socially accepted addiction. It numbs us, distracts us, and gives us the illusion of importance. We hide behind packed calendars and endless to-do lists, not because we must, but because silence terrifies us. In stillness, the pain we’ve buried begins to speak, the old wounds, the unhealed traumas, the truths we’ve avoided for too long. Easier to drown them with noise than to listen.
But busyness comes at a cost. We lose sunsets to screens, laughter to deadlines, intimacy to endless scrolling. We are everywhere but never fully here. We blur through our days with the illusion of accomplishment while drifting further from what truly matters: our spouses, our children, our friends, our inner selves, the very essence of joy and fulfillment.
This pattern didn’t start yesterday. It was seeded in childhood, reinforced by culture, and fueled by propaganda that whispers: “You are only as valuable as what you produce.” And so, we trade playfulness, wonder, and joy for a desperate chase to prove we are enough, to society, to others, and most painfully, to ourselves.
But life is not meant to be measured by output. You are not here to be a machine. You are here to be a miracle. Life is richer, deeper, and far more sacred than the number of meetings you attend or accolades you collect.
So, stop hiding behind the mask of busyness. Choose stillness. Choose presence. Measure your life not by how much you’ve done, but by how deeply you’ve lived, by how involved you’ve been, by the love you’ve given, the laughter you’ve shared, the courage you’ve exhaled, the passion you’ve invested.
The world does not need your busyness. It needs your presence. It needs you as you are, imperfect, committed, unapologetic. The question is: will you continue to run, or will you finally arrive? And life, life is about becoming, becoming whole, becoming real, becoming unique, becoming free. It’s about transcending and liberating yourself. It’s about being awake.
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Author: Maurice "Mao" Correa
Website: pathtoone.com
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Beautifully stated, as always Maurice. Thank you so much.
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