We live in a world, she tells me, where “nothing is enough”. Driven by debt, we need to work harder all the time. Crushed by overwork, our relationships begin to break down. Robbed of the healing balm of relationships, we become more and more insecure and exhausted. More and more exhausted, we become less efficient at our jobs, which makes us more insecure, and so on. In our heads, we are always thinking about what’s just ahead rather than what’s happening now. “We are out of the now,” Bunting tells me, “which is an exhausting place to be.”

via William Leith discovers the hidden problems with living in a 24-hour world | Life and style | The Observer.