Mad Busy

Life is interesting. I love Reggie Watts' video sign off:

'Life. It just keeps happening.'

Busy-ness is a strange thing to me. We think of ourselves as busier than previous generations, but are we? We are certainly doing more, but that's because we can. We can 'cook' a meal in a couple minutes (Science Oven!), we can fire off 'letters' to people (And have them receive the letters) in seconds, minutes at most. We can wash the entire household's laundry in a day, WHILE we do other stuff.
I don't think we're more busy now, I think we're faster. So maybe we're more hectic today than ever before. Surely people have always bemoaned:
"Ugh there just isn't enough time in the day."
Or have always responded to "How's it going?" with:
"Super busy. Just constantly doing stuff."

But in the past that busy-ness was working the farm 14+ hours a day. Writing a letter for an hour, then seeing it off. Walking / riding a horse to a colleague's house to discuss business. Preparing meals for hours per day. Drawing water from the well.

I think you get the idea. When we have down time what's the first thing we do? Completely book that time with something else. I'll bet that's what people int the past did as well. Pretty sure we'll always be mad busy.