"Human Nature" or "I've Been Around Computers for Too Fucking Long"



Some things are so easy to fix. Others... Not so much.

When it comes to machines, mechanisms, computers - it's rare that it's something I can't fix. When it comes to people? It seems to be pretty much the opposite.

Maybe I've gotten too used to being able to fix broken things, become ensconced in the world where I literally can make everything better, or at least make it into something that makes people happy. I like that last one a lot.

Thought about working on people instead of computers early on in college. Despaired over the understanding that you never can make them as good as new, and they break down sooner than later. Contemplated trying to fix people's heads for an even briefer period, came to an unpleasant realization that I do my best not think of.

Habits can change. People, not so much.

If their problems stem from human nature rather than a nasty bacteria that shouldn't be there, there's not a damn thing you can do. Between genetics and environment, we seem to have been given a permanent stamp that we can't erase, rub out or alter to save our lives. Literally, some times.

I see things that I know can be different, can be better. But in all honesty, they never will be. Whatever the people two thousand years from now will be like, I can guarantee that they will still murder, steal, lie, cheat and in general, be unsavory little bastards in many respects. And I'm giving good odds that they won't have flying cars either :/

We might not be able to change who we are, but what we can do is work with it, not against it. Tiger Woods may be an undisputed master when it comes to hitting a small white spheroid a long distance accurately under challenging conditions, but when his water heater explodes, he calls a plumber. It doesn't make sense to try and be an expert at everything. Aside from being impossible, it's a waste of time. Everyone is good at a few things, better at them than they are in comparison to others. Wrangle those and harness them to get where you need to go, and don't sweat the rest.

I can't fix people. People can't even fix themselves.

Human beings are incredible when it comes to adapting though, finding what works best and then exploiting that as much as they can. And that's a good thing. Actually, that's a great thing.

The rest? That lack of perfection, or having faults you wish you could fix? Fuck that shit. Don't bother with it.

Time is finite. Do the best you can with it. Don't waste it trying to change what can't be. Just go out and do.