“the sum total of countless little everyday choices”

Depending on which blogs you read, Why Bother may seem overlinked; everyone’s talking about it on most of the blogs/pages I read.

But if you haven’t heard about it, and haven’t read it, you should.  It’s an opinion piece by Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, a book I read a couple of months ago and loved.  I won’t summarize the article for you - it’s short enough to only take a few minutes to read.

Neither do I have any shareable thoughts on it yet.  I’ve only just finished reading it, and need some time to mull it over, rather than just posting a bunch of “I agree completely"-type thoughts.  But I will leave you with the one sentence, of the entire article, that resonated the most with me:

“Sometimes you have to act as if acting will make a difference, even when you can’t prove that it will.”