Piddle In The Details
I’m not sure now how the conversation came about or who initiated it in the first place, or why they would ask such a thing. Maybe it was because the conversation wasn’t that interesting or lacked real engagement or maybe I was just bored. That happens more than anyone really realizes with me. Yet all I really remember is the reply that I gave seemed to disturb some of them. Maybe perturbed is a better verb. Not shockingly by any means but in a more antagonizing kind of way. My answer, “why would I invest myself in anything or any one not emotionally invested in me for my own benefit?” It seems like such a wasted investment on my part, no real return on my energy, no return on my time, no return of any kind that I can knowingly mention here and before I’m condemned for thinking such a thing remember for yourself when you first invested in me and what for. I dare say most of you, innocently enough, were simply there for conversation, maybe even procrastinati...