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humanodon  ·  4179 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The 'Busy' Trap

    She has a boyfriend again. (She once ruefully summarized dating in New York: “Everyone’s too busy and everyone thinks they can do better.”)

This is one aspect of East Coast culture that is so, so prevalent. Boston has a huge amount of single people just for this reason.

    More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary. I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.

This makes sense to me.