Vasu Reddy from Chicago
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There are theories for everything. I have been trying to find some solace in working every holiday, hoping that me showing up to work will help someone else who will celebrate the holiday, while I cover the time that I could have been doing nothing. Perhaps for last 5 years I have put someone else ahead of my own theory of doing nothing, while letting other's let me work the holidays. 2021 has not been any different.
There is no absolute value to sacrifice and courtesy when it is not your turn. No one seems to care and no one really gives two hoots about your time and effort. The time value is personal and when you offer your time it is assumed that you are in the mode of self sacrifice, and it has no real value. "The theory of nothing."
2021 is almost done, actually in the last week. Has been another year of Corona Virus variations, and it seem to never end. I continue to work as much as I can, just as I did in 2020. What a funny name for a crappy year "2020". I was too glad that the year is almost in hind site, just as should be the reference to 2020. The funny part is 2021 is exactly with same life lessons as it was 2020, and I am happy these 2 years are behind us.
I hope tp feel 2022 is a step to normalcy. Whatever that means by normalcy. My optimism has limits and although there no cynic that has surfaced within me in the last 24 months, my age probably has made me a bit open to the Theory of Nothing. It really has. I see even people less than half my age don't empathize with selflessness. They are probably thinking it's their privilege. Actually I have not seen empathy as an emotion lately. Just nothing. Only self preservation at any cost.
Let me get to my own "Theory of Nothing" now. It serves no purpose. As a ZERO by itself is really nothing, but a zero with something with in front of it will make it of value and the numbers will add up. I have to start 2022 soon, and I have start believing in the theory of something (no more nothing). I have to start behaving like the rest of my fellow Americans and start being selfish about my own time. I am after all speeding forward, and my time is as good as anyone else's.
