In life, everyone has their own busyness. Because every person lives in their own world, full of responsibilities. But some people have more busyness. Look at those in authority or celebrities. In a single day, they have many tasks to do, many places to reach. So they are understandably busier than ordinary people.
But there are other people – the truth is, they act busier than they really are. During my time working in some offices, I encountered such coworkers. When the group went out to eat or for relaxation, these people never participated, always claiming “my work isn’t finished yet.” Are they truly busy? Or are they only pretending to be busy? The truth is they are pretending to be busy. Behind this act lies a psychology: it’s part of an attempt to make others think “I am a very important person.”
Busyness itself is not wrong – but acting busy is not right. Once, while working in an office, one coworker’s father in law called me and asked whether his son in law was busy now, whether calling would be inconvenient. What the coworker had said to his father in law was: “I’m the busiest person in this organization, and I cannot afford to stray during office time.” With these words, he meant to assert that he is a person of importance in the organization, even to his family and relatives. Such acts of busyness are laughable. If one wishes, one can always make time to speak with needed people, travel, or visit -leaving behind all such pretenses of busyness. But we must remember: everyone has the same allotment of time. What matters is for whom we dedicate or waste that time. Never forget that those who merely act busy are laughable.
