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Morbid Curiosity

Posted on November 19th, 2009 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.

What is it about humans with regards to not being able to look away during a car accident, or the need to watch the tragic crash on the news over and over again?

I’m just as guilty as the next person.

Also, why do we as humans want to watch others fail, especially the cocky, the arrogant?

The reason that I present these two questions in the same post is due to last night I partook in both. I had a pretty strong feeling that someone of high arrogance was going to fail miserably last night, and when they did, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to look away.

Now, no one was physically hurt, and there was no way for anyone to get hurt, except for maybe a paper cut or a stiff neck from sitting in the same position for an extended period of time. So, nothing to morbid. But I knew that this individual was going to fail, and I’m talking about serious crash and burn type of failure.

Ther was nothing at all I could do. I didn’t have the authority to stop this eventual train wreck, but even if I did, this individual would not have heeded my warnings anyways, this I am certain of.

I don’t feel any guilt over the situation because it was completely out of my hands. But I do feel a little “happy” by the entire process ending up the way it did for the evening.

I have a pretty good feeling that this was a complete failure, but I also have a strong feeling that this failure will try to be spun into a “learning experience”, when, in reality, it was a loud siren of the inability of this individuals capabilities.

The lesson that should be learned from this experience for the arrogant is humility, but this will not be understood nor conveyed.

And the lesson that I would need to learn from this experience is….well, I imagine a little humility on my part as well. Hope that I learn my lesson before the other indiviual does…otherwise, I might just do a little “touchdown dance” next time I see them after their epic failure. ^_^

I guess this would be one of those posts that I should decipher the message/lesson instead of just typing it in and publishing it to the world.

Dax out-

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