It is with much contemplation I try to understand. I try to wrap my mind around the thoughts of others. It is not the hypotheses of understanding quantum physics I contemplate. But rather the simple thought that for many are looked at as common or even natural. I wonder what a man is thinking when he urinates on a toilet seat, that he knows full well someone may have to sit on, perhaps even himself. I wonder what a person is thinking when they take something that isn’t theirs from a person they don’t know or may even know very well. I wonder what someone is thinking when they talk down on a person or group of people for something that in fact only applies to themselves and or their own actions. I wonder what a person is thinking when they speed past you, cut in front of you, and others nearly causing a wreck, putting lives at risk only to find themselves stopped beside you at the traffic signal two miles up the road. I wonder what a person is thinking when they are the most annoying back seat drivers ever, scared to death of every vehicle on the road. Yet when intoxicated they will not hesitate to get behind the wheel of a car and be everything they fear while sober. I wonder what people are thinking when they decide to try meth? Is it that person that resembles a skeleton with skin stretched over it, infested with sore’s, and sporting a smile of missing or decayed teeth that gives them the overwhelming desire to want some of it? I wonder what people are thinking when they are cruel to helpless animals, putting puppies and kittens in bags throwing them off a bridge into a body of water to suffer and drown. So much to think about, so much to try and understand, so much for any one person to wrap their mind around, yet I do. I cannot help but ponder these thoughts. The possibilities much like the problems are endless. You and I both know, that they know too. Nobody can be that dumb. What would they say should they get caught doing any of these things? “I’m sorry I didn’t know”? I didn’t see the toilet seat was down. Oh, I wasn’t taking it without permission, no my good friend said his sister-in-law’s, brothers’ good friends’ babies’ mamma said it was OK for me to get it. Well, that’s the way I am so I figured everyone else must be too. I’m sorry officer, I didn’t mean to speed and run over that poor elderly lady with a walker crossing the street, they had a sale at the discount store on my brand of soft drinks and I didn’t want to miss out. Officer… I am NOT drunk, I would never, ever drink and drive a car, I don’t have a license. I didn’t know meth was bad for you and illegal, are you for real? I thought they could chew a hole in the bag and swim to the bank by a home that wanted a bunch of puppies, I don’t want any. I am sure every conceivable excuse imaginable has been used and heard. I have asked myself over and over, what can I say? What can I do to change the way these people think and feel? The sad thing is I can’t say, or do anything, you can’t say or do anything. They already know what they do is wrong. Nobody can fix them but themselves. You can preach to them, threaten them, fine them, even lock them away for a long period and none of it will change anything. None of it will change anything until they decide to change themselves. This has been an ongoing war since the dawn of mankind. So, what do we do you wonder? Maybe THAT is something we all need to wrap our minds around.
Simply my Thoughts
Dean Butler
