People are peculiar!

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Hi Eeverybody:

 

People are a peculiar group. Individually we always act like we know

what we are doing. Each person is the final judge on their own

activities. But when we see someone else do something we are quick

to say they don't know what they are doing. It should be reasonable

to assume that since we have the same equipment as they that we

don't know either, but that idea just won't stick.

 

When someone gets drunk on alcohol they are given license to do

things not ordinarily acceptable. These impulses point to

another "side" of people. So we put a name on it, subconscious, and

go on thinking we know what we are doing. This seems to me a double

standard. How can we know what we are doing at the same time we

acknowledge a subconscious that we do not know about? Accepting this

premise as food for thought is another indication of how peculiar we

are.

 

Another thing, we watch as people "go crazy". Someone drops out of

the regular crowd and loses the ability to function within the given

structure. There are reasons given why this happens: childhood

trauma, abuse, chemical imbalance,heredity. But of course we can't

ADMIT it could happen to us for fear it would happen, while accepting

the double standard of KNOWING it could happen.

 

We acknowledge our imperfectness (accepting a double standard) with

aplomb. How dare anyone challenge my right to be imperfect.

 

If there are reasons for imperfectness then it is not imperfect. It

is perfectly natural to be this way, imperfect. Perfect! But no

one can let it go at that. No matter how many time we say everything

is perfect we still strive to be better, while pretending to others

to be better than we know we are. Isn't this a peculiar way to be?

 

Love

Bobby G.