Reading reflection: "I am so busy..."

How many times did you hear this expression? “I am so buuuuuuuusy”!!!

I think when people reach adulthood they forget to have fun. I heard one time:

“They are teenagers. They have all provision. But they don’t have money.

They are adult. They have money. But they don’t have time.

They are old. They have money. But they don’t have provision”

Gosh!!! This is the biggest truth that I already have heard in my life. Is true when we don’t like someone we give this excuse: I am so busy. But the people really forget to have fun. They always say that I am busy with this, I need to do that, I need to pay this… Maybe I say this because I am young. Or maybe I say this because I see people doing this all the time and honestly it border me. I have an aunt and she says to me: “Luísa, I worked all week and I can’t spend my weekend on home. I need go out. I need to have fun!”. I wanna be like her. She surprises me!!!

But ok. I need to talk about the article. Give my opinion. I just said these things because when I think about “I am busy”, I think about adults. So…

When we don’t like someone and we don’t wanna do something with this person we always say I am busy. Not that we're lying. Ok, we are lying. But we don’t wanna be rude. I think the expression “I am busy” is like a nickname from everyone. We can introduce ourselves like this: “Hi I am Luísa and I am busy. Nice to meet u.”

I agree with this: “…I just thought it was what people said to get away from each other as fast as possible.” And I think that this thing is so ugly. Really. We need to know each other and we need to have friends. We give this excuse even with our friends. We need to show them that we love and care about them. We need be less busy. We need to live! But I am pretty sure that you will be busy in few time. ;)

Link: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2014/04/im-so-busy-not-talking-to-you.html