{"id":3597,"date":"2021-09-29T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","slug":"why-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3597","title":{"rendered":"WHY BOTHER?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I make the bed just about every morning before I leave the house for work these days. I straighten the pillows, pull the sheet and comforter tight against the headboard, and put the three decorative pillows into place. It&#8217;s one of my fairly recent morning habits but I have been doing it long enough that it has already become fairly automatic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow this habit came up in conversation with a student the other day and he asked the obvious question: &#8220;Why bother?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just going to get messy again, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t have a snappy answer for him in that moment, but upon reflection, here&#8217;s my answer: &#8220;I make the bed each morning because I want to be the kind of person who has the eyes to see any opportunity -big or small &#8211; to bring order out of disorder. And then acts to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you think about it, &#8220;why bother?&#8221; could be asked about any good habit. And the answer would always start the same way: &#8220;Because I want to be the kind of person who . . .&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make the bed just about every morning before I leave the house for work these days. I straighten the pillows, pull the sheet and comforter tight against the headboard, and put the three decorative pillows into place. It&#8217;s one of my fairly recent morning habits but I have been doing it long enough that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}