[CydeWeys]

That doesn't make sense. Having reasonable scheduling doesn't imply strict prioritization. It makes no difference whether you call your parents now or in two hours. You can't live a productive meaningful life using short term unscheduled strict prioritization.

[kyanne]

Does prioritizing work truly make one's life more meaningful? Does being productive for a company (less abstractly, for someone else, whoever owns the capital) really give life purpose?

Work that is not benefitting your community and strengthening the bonds between others is worth putting off for a ten minute phone call with those who love you.

[CydeWeys]

You do need to prioritize work to some extent because if you don't then you'll be unable to maintain a job, and then you'll have no money and be homeless and unable to feed yourself. Your life will be a lot worse in aggregate than if you merely prioritized work to at least some extent and were able to maintain an income to pay for creature comforts.

You can't just, at every moment, prioritize whatever is most fulfilling or heartwarming or whatever at that moment, and then have it negatively affect other long-term important stuff like maintaining your income. I'm not gonna skip a meeting that people are expecting me to attend to call my mom when it can wait until later in the day. If she were on her deathbed -- of course. but she's not.

That is all overly sanctimonious.