I don’t want to go visit my friends in another city because I don’t think they would make the same effort to go see me exclusively, only as a tertiary bonus of seeing an old friend. As much as I pride myself on striving to foster change through my actions, there will always be people on whom those actions have little to no effect; so much so that I it is not worth the time and effort. Is this hypocrisy or merely good logic?

When I think about something I often go with my gut instinct, my initial reaction and that can tell me a lot about a subject. I can examine a subject and see the obvious conclusions to draw from it. Most importantly and most difficult is to see the third and fourth steps beyond the conclusion, the motivations and triggers that underscore subjects