I'm a busy person and living in this busy modern world doesn't help despite all the time-saving aids we surround ourselves with. There's never enough time in the day or week, that's how it feels, and when one task is complete another presents itself in an endless line of things to do. It's so very tiring, but that's the world we've created and we have no choice but to live in it.
It's easy to say things used to be easier in the olden days and I believe it although I also feel there were aspects that would have kept people very busy as well. There was less automation and more physical activity required but, of course, people didn't spend time on electrical devices as they do now and in their downtime I believe they would have been in a better position to find time for themselves to think which is something many find difficult these days.
People have forgotten how to listen to themselves and instead fill up every moment with stuff that doesn't really matter; I mean what other people are doing with their lives, eating, wearing, where they're going and what they have. None of it really matters to us as individuals and within our own lives.
I work very hard at life, I need to just to keep up, but I also work very hard to find the time to listen to myself, the whispers that come from deep within me and which are my true and authentic self speaking to me. I believe that one fails to heed such things at their great peril so I work on clearing away other less important things to hear those whispers from within and respect them for what they are and what they mean to my life.
Failing to listen to ourselves and heed what we hear is one of life's biggest failings and I believe so many people inhibit and restrict their lives simply by failing to listen to themselves, failing to make the time and space to listen to the whispers from within.