Excuses

by TastyJack Tuesday, April 22, 2014 0 comments

Hey guys! I totally was suppose to study tonight but instead I wrote this blog instead. I also spent way too long trying to edit the top photo. In the end I'm okay with it, although, I would have liked to have been able to get a little bit more colour.

Easter break has been quite eventful. I'm very tired at the moment, I probably should have taken a nap at some point today, but nope, never got around to it.

I just thought of a cool story, that I really can't remember who or when it happened , but it went like this.

Me (after just sitting down): What is that horrific smell? Can anyone else smell that?
Person 1: no, I can't smell it.
Me: *harps own about the crap smell*
Me: oh wait...
*5 mins pass*
Person 2: It was my perfume wasn't it.
Me: yeah...
#shitthathappenstoJackson

I also haven't been to the gym in weeks now. Literally weeks. I've made all these excuses for why I haven't been, from too many assignments, to being sick to needing to recover, to feeling sickness coming on. I mean, I'm really good at making excuses.

People make excuses all the time to say why thing aren't their fault. Any reason to shift the blame from themselves. When we can't find an excuse we go its no one's fault and leave it at that. For whatever reason this is okay. Its okay to say its no one's fault.

Okay, don't get me wrong, there are somethings that are no one's fault. Like, if there's an earthquake, that's probably no ones fault. Probably. (ha, fault, earthquake, get it? yeah, I'll leave.)

But just about everything else, it is someone's fault. When you can't see someone, you can't just go, oh, I have assignments, its the assignments fault. You literally just said you're choosing the assignment over the someone. Which is okay, right, I don't have a problem with that. What I have a problem with is when you go and say its the assignments fault.

Too often when we make a decision someone doesn't like, we try and deflect the blame. Really, there's no real reason not to do this, but it feels wrong. It feels wrong, when we can't accept our own decision, just because of some incessant need to please everyone and keep everyone happy.

When someone is not happy, or when something goes wrong, nine times out of ten its someone's fault. People's influence over aspects like these are a lot larger than the influence we can't control.

~TastyJacks~