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Leave a Comment — it's that Simple

Its a good idea — maybe even vital to our existence — to participate in the world around us.

Think about something that no one is witnessing at this moment.

For instance, in some rain forest somewhere, at this exact second, a particular tree has a particular leaf on it, and a drip from some rain from last night is building to the point at which it will roll of that specific leaf, and fall to the forest floor far below.

This is most definitely happening.

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There really is a tree in a rain forest and a drip about to fall.We can agree on that and we can also imagine that no one will see it occur. Maybe not even a toucan or a yellow finned Marm's beetle. No one and nothing will witness this event. 

The question follows: is there any significance to this small and most likely unwitnessed event? It happens, but no one can care as no one was involved — therefore, it doesn't matter. 

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Leaving a comment following a blog in a small publication may seem about as significant as a random drip falling in a distant rainforest.

Who cares? Why make the effort? It is so insignificant. 

I think Buddha mentioned that accepting our own smallness (insignificance) was a very important if difficult decision. Once cognized, scale is set to all that which we find important in our lives. (Think Hubble photos, the Galaxy Song from Monty Python, stones at the sea's edge.) The "big picture" is humbling. Why, then, would one want to respond to a blog?

We respond to blogs because that is us, right now, in the moment we are stimulted — pleasantly or not — by the blog. We respond, because, drip or pebble, or winking light in a sea of endless lights, the fact that we exist asks that we add our two cents to this universal dance. 

Your comment may be read by a handful of people. My blog, this sentence, may be read or not read at all (well at least the editor will read it.) It is unlikely that anyone will nominate this for blog of the year, and your comment may not get as much as a comment on it — but I promise you I will read it, and I will thank you for winking, for spinning, for dripping ... or whatever your part is in this drama. 

We blog and we comment ...

... because we are.

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