I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that I don’t care anymore. No matter how much I try, the goalposts for whatever it was that I believed in have moved, again, and I am just too damned tired to try and keep up. It’s not as if I was going to change the world by myself and for all the discussion I’ve had concerning certain subjects, I don’t think I’ve influenced a single person. I’m not looking to necessarily change minds, but to get people to understand that there are other points of view, many of them as valid as theirs. If one is open to rational argument, then it could be seen that there really is just one truth, that can been seen from multiple points off view.

I’m not taking up space on a street corner or standing on a soapbox shouting to my fellow citizens my opinions about any and all no matter if they want to hear it or not. These people approach me. At work, on the street, at a bar, in a restaurant. I used to wonder if there were a target painted on my forehead because no matter where I went, I’d eventually run into someone I knew that would want to know what I thought about whatever this person was upset or happy about. So, I’d tell ’em. And I am smart enough to be able to tell what was considered an acceptable response.

This one woman I knew at work would break up with her boyfriend at least twice a year. One time, she caught me in the hallway and told me the “bad” news. Almost in tears, she could not understand why he would not want to be with her. I did and told her, It’s because you’re a manipulative slut. Suffice to say we were no longer “friends” after that. Not that we were ever really friends. She is like lot of people that want someone else to validate them. Please don’t ask me to validate that you’re being a crappy human being is a good thing.

So I’ve decided that it’s okay for me not to care. I’ve tired of caring about so many nonsensical things that either affect you as an individual, or the planet. The planet will be here long after we’re gone so quit worrying about things that if they were gone, you’d be complaining about as well. Remember the dinosaurs? Neither do they.