Why bother!

In the scheme of things, we shouldn’t be bothered with big problems e.g. climate change, gun control, homelessness, immigration etc… Yet the fall-outs from these issues are in our faces daily.

Outside the gym, early AM, I saw a person looking for breakfast in waste bins. 21st-century scavenger. We want to survive, to see another day. To progress up the Maslow Scale, “be all we can be” (self-actualizing).

Only to see our fellowman lingered on at the bottom. Not everyone can turn down a million dollars like Rod Stewart ( I can see in your eyes, that you’ve been crying for-ever).

Why bother to look, to think, to ponder and reflect. Just do it. Buy a pair of Nike.. Hit the gym. Then fast-food joints, then winery. Call it a day, any day, to get to final day.

The measures of a man. His identity, status, and of course money. A man in full. Lots of “stuff” crowding his mansion. His mates, his mats and his mobiles.

Being visible is all that matters. Being invisible is very undesirable.

Why bother?

We progress and regress. Keep jumping the curves, riding the waves. On top of the conversation and being on people’s top mind.

Tell all. Show all. Reveal all. As long as it pays. But looking into garbage for breakfast? uncool. No sparks of divinity there. No Imago Dei there. That’s a different order of magnitude. We can’t comprehend nor can we solve big problems. Like Climate Change, Immigration, gun control, homelessness and Alzheimer.

To live is to be bothered. Why bother? because we want to live forever, at least, to wring out of Life, all of its gusto, grace and grandeur. Not everyone is a Bill Gates or Rod Stewart. But it has been done once, via a slim and slandered hands of a Belgium nun in Calcutta. You know who I am talking about. Why did she even bother! Of course, we can always offer a lot of “thoughts and prayers”, or even use hand-sanitizer while the gun man took down children in Uvalde.

Why bother!