'Friends of mine who are lawyers and accountants often find it difficult to spare the time for a movie, a phone call to a long-distance friends, or a casual chat with a neighbor. In The Cost of Living, Barry Schwartz desribes a former student who says his friendships "were not that close. Everyone was too busy. He thought twice about burdening friends with his life and problems because he knew how consumed they were with their own, and what a sacrifice it would entail for them to spend the time required to listen to him and help him out." I put a Post-it note on that page and wrote, "This is a very familiar story."'
Jean M Twenge, Generation Me, p.115.
