Continuing...

With the 'who came up with this idea' theme... Why are men from Mars and women from Venus? I mean, either it is Adam and Eve and God really has a wicked sense of humour with the kind of opposites he made to be together. Or the whole 'aliens accelerated evolution' is true and they're a bunch of sadistic morons.

I mean, think about it. For GENERATIONS men and women have been cribbing about each other and arguing about the others bad habits. But they still seem to be bloody crazy about each other, and nowhere close to giving heterosexual lives up. I do feel homosexuality is on the rise and there may be something there :), but still. Think about it. How women drive cars, how women withdraw money from an ATM. How men leave the toilet seat up, how men fart.

And yet. Love, food, sex, arguments, opinions, tantrums and all, men and women cannot live without each other. As much as they drive each other up (or off) the wall, they balance each other.

And WHO THOUGHT OF THAT??

So what?

More people are mean than nice. More people are rude than polite. More people are sad than happy. More people cheat than play fair. More people lie than be honest.

Yet we have rules, values, laws, religion that forbid all of these. If this 'badness' is so natural, so obvious, why all the rules? Who decided this is good or right compared to the other? Where did the conscience come from and why is it not more prevalent? Or why did it come at all?

It's so weird that something that is relatively more rare is considered the right thing. That something that's not natural is considered good. And I don't mean to disagree. I just wonder - what were we all like? And who decided that that which we all feel naturally inclined to do is wrong? AND WHO AGREED? How many agreed? Cos it took a lot of people, in power, to make those laws. To make those rules. People who themselves probably didn't obey those rules.

So WHY did someone or a group of someones make such rules? And how did it even occur to them that that which is unnatural is good? Did someone decide to play a colossal joke on humans to say - I know how hard it is to be 'good', so here are a bunch of rules that I know you cannot follow, so I'm making them up so you can always feel like shit about yourself? Or was it more - aspirational? I know these are difficult, but aspiring to be better will make you better. I would like to believe the latter rather than the former, but WHO thought like that? And had enough power to implement that?

Inertia

I have HIGH inertia. It takes me ages to do a thing differently or try something new. (I can hear my husband and friends rolling their eyes). But what can also happen with inertia - once I accept the change, I am just as committed to the new thing.

Dichotomy

Have you ever had a day when you've been your most constructive and your least? Where you've been most patient and correct in one situation, and completely lost your cool in another?

I know circumstances, situations, people all impact how we react (well it does for me :)). But it's just amazing how 10 mins ago I was the perfect representation of proper behaviour, and 10 mins later I was unconstructive and impatient :).