Everyone hates excuses, but the one I hate the most is "I'm just so busy."
And I write this because I am the worst about throwing around this phrase, when I really mean to say "My priorities and time management skills are out of line."
We all have 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week. Taylor Swift has 24 hours in a day. The President has 24 hours in a day. Jesus had 24 hours in a day.
And although I don't have those peoples' personal planners sitting in my lap right now, I'm betting they have more on their to-do list than I do; and somehow life is working for them.
When someone tells me they are busy, I already know that. My assumption is that time is of the highest value to everyone. My assumption is that you aren't just laying on your couch every day... you either have a job, school, clubs, events, most of the time: all of the above.
And this is normal. If someone were not doing one or more of these things, we would say that person is lazy or doesn't have their life together. This is the way it is in an American culture as fast-paced as ours.
But I think something we can do that will begin to transform our society a bit is to stop the glorification of "busy."
