Nuannaarpoq: “taking extravagant pleasure in being alive”...

This year has been a whirlwind. I am in my last year of masters program, working on internship and as many of us entrepreneurial doer types are, decided now was the time to start my multifaceted business. I know…overloaded much? But we all do it in some ways and that is a point for a whole other time 😃

But its strange…I mean I have always been “busy”…we all are. It’s part of the cultural experience in the US to feel overworked, overfilled and perpetually burnt out. But, this time, things feel different - which says a lot about the progress I have made because I have worked years to counter act those deeply rooted cultural norms I have internalized...

There are going to be times for all of us where our lives are a bit busier than others –a major project deadline at work, your kids are getting ready to go back to school, an unplanned home or car repair emerges, etc. But few of us have reason to be busy ALL of the time. However, we continue to feed into this toxic, culturally driven energy of perpetual motion and force ourselves to believe our time is filled each and every day. We equate busyness with social status and value, assuming people who are not busy are lazy, less than and in many cases, obsolete. We become humble braggers, always finding a way to wrap into conversations how busy we are and competing to see who is more important, more valuable, more successful amongst us based on how many things we have on our plate. Success is no longer tied to individuality but in how many people you can climb over to stand above...