More Busy-ness

I was around other SuperBusy parents again this weekend. On Friday night I attended a home party for Arbonne and Saturday I went to my son's basketball game. As I ran into people I hadn't seen in some time the initial conversation was relatively the same every time, even when I eavesdropped on others conversations.

It went something like, "Hi, How are you? How are things? What's new?" and the response somewhere in the first 10 seconds was about how busy life is. Are we really as busy as we say we are? Or, is it somehow acceptable and almost a sort of badge of honor.

I often wonder about this and about whether it's something only experienced in my town of Hillsborough, in NJ, in the US or everywhere. I'd love to see comments from others around the world about this busy-ness thing. What are people so busy doing and are they really as busy as they say they are?