Like you, I have things that I’m bothered about.

And like you, perhaps, I think other people should be bothered about those same things. You should be bothered about it.

But damn and blast it, you’re not! Which, quite frankly, is an insult to my sense of innate rightness. Am I Bothered? Yes I am!

You can’t stop me being bothered. But perhaps you could acknowledge it, without judgement. Whether or not I’m justified in my “bothered-ness”. It helps a bit when you do that.

We all need to be seen. And unacknowledged Bother can sometimes inflate to dangerous levels that can cause real, rather than imaginary problems.