Seneca vs the Cult of Busyness

You are not busy - you are besieged. The problem is not that life is short, but that you fritter it away, giving your hours to everyone but yourself. Even kings and merchants die complaining they never began to live.

You guard your money, yet squander your days - though only time, once spent, can never be repaid. It is not that we have too little time, but that we lose so much of it.