An Overwhelming Notion

I've noticed that it's seems to be increasingly trendy to be "busy". Like, full-time job-plus-I-run-the-PTA-and-do-spin-classes busy. It's as if everyone is competing with each other to figure out how is filling up their calendars more; "sorry, I can't get coffee Thursday, I'm just soooooo busy". Pardon my lack of eloquent vocabulary, but, ugh. Why?! I …