GreyMatter, Personal

What’s The Point?

Sometimes, I think I’m becoming more and more cynical in life. 

Every where I see, there are only more examples of “all-talk-no-action”.  On TV, I catch a segment of a talk show featuring a heated debate among some citizens and some politicians.  I can’t help but wonder, what’s the point?  Tomorrow it will all be forgotten, and nothing good will come of it.  In a group discussion, I overhear people cribbing about the pathetic state of affairs and blaming the government for all their ills.  And I think to myself, what’s the point?  No one will take the time out to do any thing about it.  All they want to do is let out some steam, find someone to blame, and go right back to their jobs and their parties…

It’s not just others.  After all, what have I done that’s so different from them?  This blog?  Is that really going to make a difference?

And then, I am reminded of the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. :

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

I’d like to believe that that must count for something.  Maybe, some day, I will be able to put these words – these feelings – to constructive use.