Time is our greatest asset.
The weakest excuse for anything (whether dating or helping someone) is "I'm too busy." We're all busy. We each have only 24 hours in our day, so we try to fit in as much as we can. Therefore, we prioritize things based on their value to us. "I'm really busy" automatically means "it isn't worth my time." Minus the honesty, especially in dating.
Consider the Occupy Wall Street movement as an example. I cannot help feeling as though many of the people spending two months on Wall Street are the same ones who do not volunteer because they "don't have time."
I have long held the belief that our politics are less of an adversarial system and better established in terms of priorities, and what is important to people. The conflicts between Republicans and Democrats are more often a matter of priority than dispute. The reason I love our two-party system for the United States is certain matters will go unattended for eight years, and then when the list of growing concerns is powerful enough, the other party gets support from the swing votes.
The last I heard about the Occupy Wall Street movement is that they are growing to become a third party (so much for starting as "the 99%"). That sounds reasonable. There is a lot of gross misconduct in Corporate America, and Americans have been flexible enough to work around these atrocities. It would be great to see it come to an end, but the cynical perspective is that the greedy are so conditioned to their behaviors and so empowered by their immoral practices that change is impossible, not inevitable.
If enough people consider it a priority to stop this behavior, they can cease. If not, they won't.
Only time will tell.
