The beauty of pointless endeavour

May 30, 2012

Mick Sheridan is an upholsterer who lives in Mid West Wales. He says its not much of a living but he likes re-interpreting old chairs. He’s started putting them in bus stops and leaving a note saying “Take the weight off your feet”. Of course, within a couple of days of placing a chair at a bus stop by the Pen-y-banc turn-off on the A40 near Llandeilo it was stolen. Mick’s pal Rhodri Marsden writes a column in The Independent called Life on Marsden and his view on the theft of the chair was this “…that only made Mick’s efforts more heroic. Too often we find ourselves dismissing ideas by saying “there’s no point”, when that’s precisely why we should press ahead. So yes! This week, please expend huge amounts of effort on stupid stuff for minimal reward”.

There is a beauty in such pointless endeavour.