Perpetual motion...
It's interesting to me the persistence of the loser. The guy who stays in the poker game until the shirt off his back is gone. The druggy who knows well and good that the next hit could kill him, or the guy who lives in the cardboard box next to him. Yet he rolls the dice anyway.
What is it that makes us so impulsive?
It is animalistic nature to be impulsive. As humans though, we have the ability of long term memory, foresight, and reasoning at our disposal. Yet for some reason enough overwhelming emotional distress, excitement, or lust can cause us to forego all of those tools that separate us from our dog who doesn't remember that eating grass will make him puke.
Oddly enough, I know what's good for me, I know 100% what I should be doing at any given moment, but instead I generally chose not to. Some would call that self-destructive behavior, and I would beg to differ. I like to call it supreme laziness. Even to write this blog I had to pull myself away from my couch and my glass of wine. Oddly enough, I'm very attentive to my leisure activities, and if I were half as active in the things I'm good at that are actually productive, I'd probably have more money than I know what to do with. Oh well, carpe diem and I have more episodes of Californication to watch.
It's interesting to me the persistence of the loser. The guy who stays in the poker game until the shirt off his back is gone. The druggy who knows well and good that the next hit could kill him, or the guy who lives in the cardboard box next to him. Yet he rolls the dice anyway.
What is it that makes us so impulsive?
It is animalistic nature to be impulsive. As humans though, we have the ability of long term memory, foresight, and reasoning at our disposal. Yet for some reason enough overwhelming emotional distress, excitement, or lust can cause us to forego all of those tools that separate us from our dog who doesn't remember that eating grass will make him puke.
Oddly enough, I know what's good for me, I know 100% what I should be doing at any given moment, but instead I generally chose not to. Some would call that self-destructive behavior, and I would beg to differ. I like to call it supreme laziness. Even to write this blog I had to pull myself away from my couch and my glass of wine. Oddly enough, I'm very attentive to my leisure activities, and if I were half as active in the things I'm good at that are actually productive, I'd probably have more money than I know what to do with. Oh well, carpe diem and I have more episodes of Californication to watch.