I think, therefor I do. Or dont.

What is the process that one uses when one thinks? Is it a garbled mess? Does one have an mental workflow that one processes?

  • If X then Y
  • If A then B

But the thing is, it’s never that simple and never that easy. Because there are so many variables that’s qualitative and fuzzy that sometimes, our workflow throws an exception, we simply don’t know how to process it. We then learn new things that toss up the status quo, the algorithm but sometimes we fail to update our process. That we’re still doing the same wrong things at the most inopportune time. And they may not necessarily be wrong, just not right.

I’ve said this before but 99% of the time, there’s no such thing as someone being 100% in the wrong. People get pushed to do things that may or may not be in their control.

As you go throughout life, you learn. What has hurt you, what has helped you, what is important and what is a “nice to have.” We learn the social customs imposed on us while our generational creates, molds, and sometimes even destroying. The moral and ethically proverbial bulls-eye is moving that sometimes we can’t help but just close our eyes, aim forward and pull the trigger, hoping we land a shot. Praying.

Despite working in a field that’s mostly binary in situations, I find the fuzziness of social interactions fascinating while at the same time infuriating. It’s quite remarkable just how deep one can go to find the root of the problem, the genesis of it all. And yet, it’s quite disappointing the response, the complete lack of consciousness or maybe simply, the disregard.

Because the act of not doing can just be as bad as doing.

Have you ever felt something so bad in the past that you don’t want it happen to the person you’re with? Just as we wish our kids do not grow up going through that torture, knowing what it has done to our psyche and mental health.

Have you ever done something you wish to never happen to you? But then we have to consider why we did it in the first place. What were the circumstances.

Do you ever stop and realize what you have not done recently? Or ever? Or possibly, what have you been doing that you shouldn’t have? Or didn’t need to? Because it’s not important enough, that the cons outweigh the pros?

Let’s think a little more from now on, shall we?

As much as we’d like to paint broadly, the truth is instead we have to trace precisely.

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