One Minute Ramble: Why Bother?

I wanted to write
Something
To smash the gloom
Something
To clear the fright
Anything
To erase the doom
And bring in some light

And a voice said to me, why bother?

Why bother?

I thought.

Why bother?

Why bother? Because I’ve had enough about this atrocity and that war. This doom and that gloom. This blah and that blah blah.

Here a blah. There a blah. Everywhere a blah blah. Bah!

Why bother? Because I want to.

There’s far more good out there to concentrate on anyway.

Why bother? Because I can.

(Of a fashion. In a roundabout way.)

Jan 10, 2015

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14 responses to “One Minute Ramble: Why Bother?”

Let’s CUT the Crap!

Jan 10, 2015

You’re right Tom.
“There’s far more good out there to concentrate on anyway.”
Let’s accent the p.o.s.i.t.i.v.e. 🙂

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1. Tom Merriman
  
  Jan 13, 2015
  
  Let’s do it!
  
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lameadventures

Jan 11, 2015

Yeah, I know what you mean, Tom. It’s been a tough week. But, hey, we have to keep bothering.

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1. Tom Merriman
  
  Jan 13, 2015
  
  Indeed we do, LA… indeed we do!
  
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prenin

Jan 11, 2015

I agree Tom, it’s been a dreadful week!!! 😦

Lets hope next week is better!!! 🙂

God Bless!

Prenin.

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1. Tom Merriman
  
  Jan 13, 2015
  
  Here’s hoping, Prenin!
  
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The Writing Waters Blog

Jan 11, 2015

I understand the feeling. I’d like to sound erudite and wise here, but really you know. I can see it in your writing. Bothering is exactly what we need to do.

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1. Tom Merriman
  
  Jan 13, 2015
  
  The other option, Rebecca, is giving up… and there’s not much point in doing that, is there?
  
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europasicewolf

Jan 11, 2015

We are already breaking the gloom…we are already bothering…people of the world are uniting, standing together as one people in solidarity…death, destruction, fanaticism, will always be amongst us, always will there be wars and murders so on and so forth….but they will never truly override the spirit of humanity which even as it fears stands shoulder to shoulder both with its fears and its determination never to be beaten! Never silenced! Never beaten no matter what the adversity and the darkness that surrounds us!…Je suis Charlie.

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1. Tom Merriman
  
  Jan 13, 2015
  
  Indeed, Icewolf. Keep Calm and Carry On!
  
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Diane Henders

Jan 11, 2015

Thank you, Tom! It’s the ordinary people doing the small acts of “bothering” that make the biggest difference in the end.

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1. Tom Merriman
  
  Jan 13, 2015
  
  I agree, Diane.
  
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Gray Dawster

Jan 12, 2015

Thank you for this one Tom 🙂

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1. Tom Merriman
  
  Jan 13, 2015
  
  It’s a pleasure, Andro!
  
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