Always Busy Syndrome..

Sometimes it gets me thinking, why is everybody so busy all the time(including myself), that we dont even have time to enjoy some simple things. Five days of the week (no wonder they are called the working days), most people I know (including myself most of the time), end up just working, and doing the basic diurnal activities. Barely managing to get some time to cook, or sneak in any other activity in the packed 24 hour day. Crazy as it might seem, i am starting to think, that this is actually a syndrome with the current generation, the being always busy syndrome. We want a lot from ourselves, we want to excel and grow at work, we want to travel , we want to workout and stay in the best possible shape, we want time to read books, play with our electronic gadgets, we also want to pursue a few hobbies. The laundry list of things keeps growing. Its not that we should not have any goals and just sit and do nothing, but I think , many of us are converting ourselves to high efficiency machines, aiming for even higher efficiency. We expect a lot from ourselves, and sometimes we get extremely involved in achieving that, that we forget the simple pleasures and human interaction.When do we spend time to just sit and talk, or get involved in some human interaction? Well, its just an observation and I could be wrong, but maybe we are evolving towards becoming self fueled egoistic machines, with more of efficiency and less of human traits :-) .