Why?

I've questioned everything all of my life, seldom taking anything at face value.  The behaviour of some people absolutely astounds me and I'm at a loss to find any logic to what they do.

Take, for instance, the guy who was so angry because he couldn't find a woman to have sex with him so he rented a van and plowed it into a group of pedestrians.  In his little, ugly mind, how is that going to accomplish getting him laid?  Well, maybe by the men he'll meet in prison but I don't think that was his intent.

Then there are the men who beat their wives in order to control them.  Is it their purpose in life to have total control over someone or to have that someone love them?  I'm thinking those men are so horribly insecure that they don't believe anyone would voluntarily love them or want to be with them.

Men aren't the only whackos.  There are women who spend their lives acquiring so much "stuff" they can't possibly use, that they become hoarders.  Is this a case of "whoever dies with the most stuff wins" or is it just misdirected desires?

I've seen kids having temper tantrums demanding a toy or even once a really fat kid screaming for an ice cream cone.  The parents placated and babied the out of control child instead of teaching them decent behaviour.  That child will be shocked when they go out in the world and find no-one else will tolerate their tantrums.

I watched a bit of a program last night about a young man who chose to rob someone and was sent to prison where he was brutally raped.  The gist of the story was that he'd come from a deprived background and we should have sympathy for him. When he got out of prison, he continued being a criminal, going back to prison many times.  He ended up committing murder so now he's in prison to stay.  Don't they ever learn???

My worst vice was overeating.  I know and knew then exactly why but I did it anyway because I felt that it really didn't matter.  Instant gratification!  Well, every single one of the choices we make do matter because there are consequences for each and every one of them.  If we're smart, the consequences will be positive ones but, if we continue to bang our heads against a brick wall, we can't be surprised when it hurts.

I love Dr. Phil's response to people who try to justify their poor choices.  He says, "how is that working for you?" and, of course, it's not.  Common sense tells us that, if our current behaviour is causing us grief, then the logical answer is to change that behaviour.

Now, I'm far from perfect but I'm also kind of smart so I have changed my behaviour in many ways over the years to better my life.  It's only logical.