I Don't Understand II: I Figured It Out

February 27, 2007 - Tuesday

Current mood: happy
Category: Life

Okay, so maybe I didn't figure it out in the sense that now I understand, but I did figure it out. I had my very own epiphany!

I don't understand why people do some stuff because it's stuff that can't or shouldn't be understood!

When there is no good reason why someone does something negative, even if the person doing it thought they had a good reason, then there is no use in trying to understand it. We can all come up with tons of excuses for why we pull the crap that we do, but the fact remains that the crap we have pulled is either immoral or stupid or crazy or mean or irrational. That kind of stuff shouldn't be understood, should it?

Y'see my focus was all wrong. I was thinking there was something wrong with me (not that there aren't things wrong with me ...there are a LOT of things wrong with me). But my inability to understand immoral or stupid or crazy or mean or irrational actions, that's not "wrong" - it's normal...it's good! People who truly understand that kind of stuff either live and act that way, or they counsel people who live and act that way.

This is stretching it a bit, but it's like being frustrated at myself for not understanding why a person would murder someone for the heck of it...or even murder someone because they felt they had the right. I'm thinking it would be SCARY if I understood something like that! When people do immoral or stupid or crazy or mean or irrational things and I don't get it, I should be happy. So I am happy!

Now, before anyone jumps to a conclusion of some kind let me put this disclaimer in. If someone killed my nephew, either on accident or on purpose, my initial REACTION might be to want to hurt or kill the person who did it. I would never RESPOND that way, though. (Mind you, it's only because of who God is that I can say that...it's nothing I've accomplished.) The difference is in the action taken. God never said we couldn't be angry, He said, "Be angry and sin not."

So, the next time some person does something immoral or stupid or crazy or mean or irrational don't say, "I do not understand how someone could do that." Instead say, "I am so happy I don't understand how someone could do that."

Yay!
Steph

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