I remember hearing about this interesting experiment. In this study, they found that no matter how horrible something smells, you will always go back and try it again. I remember some friends and I tried it before we knew the results of the study, and every time there was a putrid smell, the person went back to smell it again. It was tried time and time again, and overtime, it was smelled twice before they walked away.
But why? Why do we stay to smell something vile and try again? Why do we stay for the thing that's horrible for us?
In a way, it's like a second chance. Something happens. Then the red flag is waved and the sirens blare. But you stay. Why?
I can't say I know, but I can say I'm pondering it. I think it's something about hope. I think it's something about change. We hope the second time will be different and that something will change. We hope our voices are heard and our actions are understood.
We hope, we hope, we hope.
But change isn't like Taylor Swift says. It isn't magical and swift. It's long and grueling, often littered with more defeats than victories. It often feels less glorious than one dreams of it being. Change is an elusive figment of one's imagination that drives insanity.
There was an author that once said that the very thing you want the most is the very thing that will drive you insane. I don't think he had any idea how correct he would be when he said that. But as I puzzle this out, I wonder.
Perhaps change is what drives us, but perhaps it's also to insanity. Put the pieces together. We go back time and time again hoping things change. And when things never change, it breaks us. It destroys us. We question everything around us.
All we want is change, but we want it so much that it's the very thing that drives us insane. Going back and going back and expecting different results and it never happening creates insanity. And insanity continues to drive us to return expecting change.
It's a vicious circle of wanting something so much, even though it will destroy you and it will never change.
Again, I can't say why you want to go back and smell it again, but I can tell you to prepare for insanity.
"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question."
But why? Why do we stay to smell something vile and try again? Why do we stay for the thing that's horrible for us?
In a way, it's like a second chance. Something happens. Then the red flag is waved and the sirens blare. But you stay. Why?
I can't say I know, but I can say I'm pondering it. I think it's something about hope. I think it's something about change. We hope the second time will be different and that something will change. We hope our voices are heard and our actions are understood.
We hope, we hope, we hope.
But change isn't like Taylor Swift says. It isn't magical and swift. It's long and grueling, often littered with more defeats than victories. It often feels less glorious than one dreams of it being. Change is an elusive figment of one's imagination that drives insanity.
There was an author that once said that the very thing you want the most is the very thing that will drive you insane. I don't think he had any idea how correct he would be when he said that. But as I puzzle this out, I wonder.
Perhaps change is what drives us, but perhaps it's also to insanity. Put the pieces together. We go back time and time again hoping things change. And when things never change, it breaks us. It destroys us. We question everything around us.
All we want is change, but we want it so much that it's the very thing that drives us insane. Going back and going back and expecting different results and it never happening creates insanity. And insanity continues to drive us to return expecting change.
It's a vicious circle of wanting something so much, even though it will destroy you and it will never change.
Again, I can't say why you want to go back and smell it again, but I can tell you to prepare for insanity.
"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question."
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