Do you know what condition you're in?If you're one of the many people who never stops - at work, at home, at play - it might not be apparent to you.You could try this simple experiment: sit down for 10 full minutes, quietly, with nothing to do. Allow yourself to feel what's going on in your body as you do this.Does even being invited into this appall you? Does your body tense up at the prospect of being still for a while?Sit. Now does your tiredness rise like the tide? Can you feel it? Or the sadness that has been there for so long? The resignation, resentment, frustration? The joy, gratitude, hope? Which?Which?Your addiction to busyness, endemic in our culture and in our organisations, is supremely effective in turning you away from how you really feel, a numbing of yourself under the guise of productivity. And if you look, really closely, you might find it's not quite the productivity you've taken it to be.We've lost sight of this so much that busyness has, for many people, become unquestionable. We don't have a clue that there might be any other way to be.Does it seem that way to you?This is a question of utmost importance. The squandering of our time - and the huge pull on the resources of the world in running around in this frantic way - add up to a tragic missed opportunity to actually live. Which, in the end, is the biggest and most important opportunity any of us have.