Sports Junkie: “Too Busy”?

Clock with “Too Busy” written. Picture from www.videoblocks.com.
Caitlin Dorsch ~ Co-Editor in Chief
Perhaps one of my pet peeves is hearing the words, “I am too busy!” In my opinion, the word “busy” means that you do not have time to give to something. This idea implies that you are giving your time to something else, not related to the thing that you are “too busy” for. And, hearing this as a student-athlete was always something that aggravated me to no end.
Now, I want to make note that I understand that, sometimes, student-athletes genuinely are busy in their lives. However, I refuse to believe that an individual literally has no time whatsoever to give to the sport that they say that they love. For me, being “busy” is simply a matter of perspective. For example, if I tell myself, “Wow, I am really busy today,” then I am essentially given myself an excuse to not do something else that I could have done to make myself better that very day.