You are not Busy

You are not busy. You think you are because you have 200 pages of reading due tomorrow, a homework and an assignment due on Thursday, some essays due next week. There is that show you need to go to and you can't forget to eat dinner - maybe you should invite that one person you like?

I am not saying that you don't have a lot of things to do. What I am saying is that you arn't busy. You are exhausted  overloaded, and in need of a break, but you are not busy. "No", you say - yelling at your computer like a buffoon - "I am busy! I have all of those things due and not all that much time to do them!". But you are wrong. You can get everything done. How do I know this? Because you have always been able to get it all done. You have been faced with more work before, and you will be faced with more work in the future.

No. You are not busy. You might be unorganized and inefficient. 

How many all night-ers have you pulled for a paper due on... not the next day? All night-ers, cram-sessions and other "busy people" things are because due dates were approaching quickly, and you did not manage your time well. So stop sucking at time management.

A letter to myself, 2012.