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Tuesday; August 12

I am not sure how I got on their list, but I am receiving regular spam calls from someone promising me some financial benefits if I were to just call them back.  My loan is ready to go – all I need to do is finish up the paperwork.  Now, I realize this is a hoax (because I haven’t applied for a loan), but I still get annoyed when they call and leave the exact same message every day.  Even though the phone numbers are different, the message is the same.  The other day I got to thinking about how annoying this is, then it dawned on me that I haven’t done anything to stop it.  I haven’t tried to block the calls; I just ignore them.  As I thought about this, I got to reflecting on life.  How many things bug us – but we don’t do anything about them?  Maybe it is a personality trait of a co-worker, a quirky nuance of our car, a bad habit we have developed in ourselves … or any number of other things.  They bug us, but we aren’t doing anything to st...