All these gadgets like pagers and cell phones that were supposed to save us time do nothing but compress our lives. They demand a quicker response and rushing and busy become the norms, the way we live. Sotile's prescription is not radical. Don't expect to find harmony and serenity by selling everything you own and moving to a hut on a high mountain bluff in Montana, where you will gaze lovingly at everyone you care about until the sunset of eternity. What we want to go for is a better version of being busy.
People are busy.
They don't have time to sit down for a two-hour encounter with each other. But in very small ways you can create moments of care and connection that do make a difference. People who stay the course reciprocate those little gifts. They don't work any fewer hours, don't have fewer balls they're juggling. What they are is more mindful of those little things.