Normally when a person says “I couldn’t care
less,” it is a lie. Anyone can care less about anything, if they try. And the
less you care, the less you suffer stress.
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| Phoenix AZ |
Look at your life. Every thought that paces back
and forth in your brain and gives you a head or stomach ache, is caused by
caring about someone or something. Maybe there are some people and stuff you
should care less about.
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| Detail of sculpture by Jeff Frabish in Prescott AZ |
For instance, why care about yesterday or tomorrow?
They don’t exist. Yesterday’s gone forever, and you can put off caring about
tomorrow until tomorrow, which is never today.
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| Flagstaff AZ |
It’s easy to care less about your home decor,
clothing “style”, or personal beauty, because everyone cares too much. You will
always be who you are, no matter how fancy your disguise, so why bother? Gladly
save precious time and cash by not caring what people think.
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| Iron King Mine, Jerome AZ |
If you work for, and with, lazy incompetent
buffoons, you can work an honest day anyhow, by not caring. Do your part, and
let everyone else kiss butts, butt heads, and slack off. (Any similarity to
anyone’s former employer is completely intentional.)
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| Cottonwood AZ |
Nature makes us care about the fate of our
children far beyond their survival needs--so forget ‘em now and then. Do your
parental best, so your conscience is clear, but their penthouse or prison is their
own blessed fault in the end. And your animals--unless they are a major food
source, how important are they really?
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| Cottonwood AZ |
If you are so poor you must eat food you hate, no
one cares, nor should you. Shut up ‘n’ eat, until you are hungry enough to
riot. It does no good to worry about far-away starving souls either. What are
ya gonna do, mail ‘em a sandwich? If they’re too weak and sick to riot, it’s
too late anyhow.
Electronic entertaining ‘world events’ are mostly
propaganda and personalities, so end their abuse of your psyche by not caring.
Like the ongoing 'holy land’ battle of Judaism versus Islam cheered on by
Christians. The same grumpy god inspires all three to jabber hate to the
cameras, and all three are correct according to various electrified ‘news’
sources. You are forgiven if you just don’t care anymore.
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| Prescott AZ |
As for sporting events: Seriously? It never
matters who wins, nor will it ever. Enjoy the game or skip it. Apathy is
critical to all sports fanaticism, since all but the champions are considered
losers.
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| Near Petrified Forest NP, AZ |
Many people pretend to care about planetary
overheating, but they don’t really, or they’d ride bikes, dry clothes outdoors,
and turn off lights and gadgets. You don’t have to care at all, just do your
part and you’ll feel better about it. The rest of the folk will follow when the
oceans begin to swallow high-end real estate.
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| Industrial Waste, AZ |
If you are suffering through any sort of
existential crisis, stop now. God or no god, you still have to get up and go to
work in the morning. Believe or don’t, but relax. Logic and hard work will get
you through life just fine. God won’t lose sleep over whether or not you
believe in It.
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| Prescott |
And if you stop caring whether or not you die,
life blossoms with possibilities. Try sky diving, bull riding, storm chasing,
drag racing, cage fighting, or exercising your right to riot peaceably
assemble.
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| Dead Horse Ranch State Park, AZ |
As you go about your day, why care what anyone
thinks about anything? It takes a lot of reading and thinking to develop an
intelligent opinion, and most of the world is too busy surviving, or too
stupid, to do much of that. If you unplug every electronic device you will not
miss anything important, but gain hours of freedom and mental peace, perhaps
time to form your own opinion.
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| Mt. Kendrick AZ |
Take care of what little is worth caring about, your
mate, those pesky family/animals/friends, your next meal, the roof leak. Let
the rest of it go. All you can do each day is show up and try. And if anyone
asks “Who
cares?” You can cheerfully say “Not I.”
%$#@!
“You know, country people don’t shine their boots
very often. And, they don’t shine other folks’ boots either.”
Tom T. Hall (1936- )
