Stop telling me how busy you are

I read this in Slate before I went to bed last night and it resonated with me. Essentially, if we view the idea of being busy as so awful, why do we constantly tell others about it in a way that's akin to bragging?

Being Busy Is The Currency of the Modern Age

The real answer, of course, is that we don't think of being busy as awful -- we think of it as c…