I know that if I eat my sister-in-law's Turtle Cheesecake, the result will not be pleasant...for me or whoever's house I'm at. My body will spend the next hour in agony, purging what I just put in me. Most of the time, I can resist the temptation and forgo those hours of fun. But sometimes, oh sometimes, temptation gets the better of me, and the hours of "fun" in the bathroom are so worth it.
Why do people continuously do things to themselves over & over, then cry about it when it ends up exactly the way it's ended up the 1000 times they did it before?
My 20's were not a good decade for me. I did things to myself over & over again...expecting things to be different...."this time". Guess what? They were never different. I'm in my 30's now and I like to think I've grown & matured. I've let those things go.
This is why it's so frustrating for me to watch someone my age or older continue to do the same things over & over when they know they're going to end up frustrated and in tears. How do you help someone stop the vicious cycle?
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I wish I knew the answer to this. If I knew, I could help people prevent so much tragedy and disappointment. I don't understand why people don't see the cycle they are in. I try to point these things out but perhaps we need to refer back to Occam's(sp?) Razor: the most obvious answer is usually the correct one. Perhaps the most obvious answer is that these people don't want to change. Maybe it's due to fear, maybe it's due to the attention they get from being a train wreck. Maybe if they did change, they'd actually have to take accountability.
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