How Often We Cause Our Own Problem?

How Often We Cause Our Own Problem?

We live in a world of problems, right dude?  Surely we will hue to that observation simply because there's a deluge of problems everywhere, regardless if your periphery is somewhere the Middle East, OR Europe OR somewhere the Americas OR even across Asia-Pacific.  Yessssirrrrs, our lives are filled with many challenges.  All of us struggle with our respective personal problems, name it, STRESS, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, SELF-DOUBT, ADDICTION and those endless worries related to our health, finances and even the distant future.  So, How Often [REALLY] We Cause Our Own Problem???

Our relationships with our spouse/partner, immediate family, and even other family members are often riddled with conflict and our relationships with our friends, neighbors, bosses and even co-workers are [sometimes] challenging as well.  YES, society heaps on additional concerns in the form of crime, violence, economic problems, prejudice, political discord, terrorism and even environmental issues [heard about our global warming woes?].  True, almost all of these problems are NOT that simple enough and sometimes their solutions remain elusive to say the least💧💧💧

BUT hey, would you agree if we say that for the most part, a huge big chunk of those problems are caused [OR to be blunt about it, CREATED] by us, human beings.  Most of the problems we face, within ourselves, in our relationships with other people and in society, are caused by people.  Granted a few problems DON'T require human collusion [think about those typhoons, tsunamis and earthquakes], BUT most do.  Human behavior is by far the single largest cause of our difficulties that each of us experience in life.  Let's put it this way:  MOST PROBLEMS ARE PEOPLE PROBLEMS and the people WHO cause the problems are quite often, US!@#$%

There lies the hitherto unknown paradox about human nature.  On one hand, human beings have used their intelligence, creativity and ability to work together, collaborating in groups to improve life dramatically through technology and science [and even via those platforms in education and heath care].  BUT on the other hand, let's face it,  human beings also behave in highly questionable adaptive ways that tend to create a slew of social, relational OR personal problems either for themselves OR to others. So, HOW can we be so intelligent and effective and YET also so dysfunctional?  WHAT is wrong with us, dude???

Our takeaway:  True, naturally, we all focus mostly on ourselves and our own lives and we tend to view the world mostly from just our own perspective.  Sadly, sometimes, we view things that way either intentionally out of sheet habits that evolve into our persona.   So, WHY is it most of us are more preoccupied with our own selves than it is needed?  And when excessive self-centeredness creeps, that is enough recipe for us to CAUSE OUR OWN PROBLEMS😗😗😗