Slow Your Roll

People are entirely too busy these days. And I'm not just saying this because I'm waiting to hear back from people about a lot of different things that are important to me. It's the truth. It has been for a while. I'm even starting to partake in the all-too-busyness that has taken over our society. I'm working 36 hours this week at my part-time job AND freelancing (more on that in another post). This means that I won't be sleeping as much, I won't be seeing my family, friends or girlfriend and I'll have little free time. For those that know me, being this busy is a rarity as I usually do my best to make sure I have copious amounts of free time. But for some, this is the norm. And that's bad.

I'm not complaining about being employed. What I'm saying is that we stretch ourselves too thin. And it ends up being the important things that suffer. Friendships. Relationships. Health. Coolness. Sexiness. Sanity. Sense of humor. Availability for beers. All of the things that make people fun to be around. We get so wrapped up in things we have to do we don't have time for things we want to do. Like hanging out with friends and family, sex, exercise, increasing coolness, staying sane, keeping a sense of humor, drinking beer. All of the things fun people do.

Maybe I'll make a campaign out of this and put it in my book. The National Association of Free-Timers is what I won't call it, because that name sucks. Maybe I won't have a company. I'll just make ads telling people to make more free time and stop doing stuff they don't want to. Not that ads actually convince people to do anything. Oops. I've said too much.