Why is it that being busy can bring out the best (and worst) of people? I am a Busy Bumble Bee and an quite busy. I rather enjoy being busy, I am a bit of a busy-body(Wow. Try saying that three times fast). But there are some who hate to be busy, they would much rather not have anything to do and just relax. Why?
For me to be busy is a great feeling. It is full of accomplishing things and checking things off of the list of things I have to do. When there are things to do I am not bored, I'm usually surrounded by someone who needs to accomplish the same thing as I do and so there is always friends to be made out of the busy-ness of life. That is a fact of life after all. At some point, every person on this earth will be busy. Be it with children, a job, or any other activity busy-ness will happen. Some will thrive. I have many a friend who, in the true nature of college, believes that they perform better "under pressure." Now I never said I liked pressure. In my little Bumble Bee world pressure and keeping busy are two very different things. Pressure has always seemed like a bad thing to me. When something is under pressure it is about to blow. Pressure is when someone expects so much from someone else that they explode and are unable to really do great. To be busy is when you have things to do so you put on your favorite song, pull up your sleeve, and get down to work. The work can be enjoyable or not. I have cleaned my little room in the hive (my dorm room that is) with both happiness and sadness. I don't truly know anyone who actually enjoys cleaning, not to say that there isn't someone out there who does, but it is almost like a universal understanding that it needs to happen. And if something is going to happen whether you want it to or not, why would you dread it and put it off. To get something started, and then finished, and gives a great feeling of accomplishment.
There are some little insects, many of my college peer are included in this category, that do not like to be busy. I believe that there are basically two types of insects. There are those who would rather laze around on a pretty flower and take in the rays, like a ladybug or a grasshopper, then there are those who know that work must be done in order to survive through the winter so instead of relaxing on the flower these insects are collecting pollen and food so that they may relax later, such as ants and Bumble Bees (of course). Bumble Bees collect many things for the winter, for you see little Bumble Bees do not like the winter, so they will collect many things such as coffee, blankets, and books. Both ants and Bumble Bees will collect through the summer and fall, but the ladybugs and grasshoppers must scramble at the end of the summer and fall to collect what is required to survive the winter. Ladybugs and grasshoppers are the insects who will collect the fast food, and laziness (for you see the laziness will not stop once winter starts). While there may not be a right and a wrong way to prepare for winter it must happen. So why would someone become so sad by the prospect of gathering the coffee creamer (you see Bumble Bees take creamer with their coffee, just a splash not enough to take away the coffee taste, but just enough so that it's not too strong)? Bumble Bees, such as myself, take such joy in being busy. Being busy means you are alive and are living life. If you are not busy, what are you doing? Now that I have said this I'm going to go and be busy, for what else would I be doing? I must prepare for the coming of spring.
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