Why Bother?

There really is nothing new under the sun. One thing certainly not new is the time spent wondering "Why bother?", some of those days when we read the newspaper, feel the weight of the world on our shoulders and wonder what to do, what we should do, or what we can do. Our experience is that we are more inclined to shrug it off, to put up with troubles which are minor or maybe far away. Sometimes it feels admirable or just easier to suffer in silence until an event affects us personally or a long series of events moves us. Then, while there is a time to keep silent, there is also a time to speak, when it is our right or our duty to cast our bread upon the waters and see what comes back.

I used to think that the General Theory of Relativity meant that everyone’s relatives were crazy. Now I have found a common thread in Ecclesiastes, Hamlet, Jefferson, and Ayn Rand, combined in 5 sentences,