What is the deal with human natures need to be obsessive? Now I'm not talking about those people who have OCD - the crazy one's that have to flick a light switch on and off twenty times before they leave the room otherwise someone will die. I'm talking about the lesser of these evils.
This interesting thought came to me last night when my flat mate and I were at home chilling out after dinner. As mentioned before I have just purchased a new laptop and one of the features on it is Bluetooth capability. Now of course, because it was my new toy I instantly tried every feature at great length because, well, that's just what people do when they buy new things.
Anyway, last night my flatmate asked me if she could use the Bluetooth capability to download some items from her phone. My response was "sure, you can try. But I already exsausted (sorry not a big speller) my energy trying and it doesn't work."
But as human nature does, my flatmate decided to try it herself anyway. I found it extremely funny that even though I told her it didn't work, she went through three grueling hours of trial and error to come to the same conclusion as I did.
Isn't it funny that no matter how many times someone tells us something won't work, or that something isn't possible we try it for ourselves anyway? If you ask me, it's an enormous waste of time, but I would probably still do it anyway! Strange how most people react the same way to this problem. Is it because we just need to do things for ourselves in order to believe it's true? Do we really have that little faith in our fellow man that we can't trust their opinion.
What does that say about us as human beings?
Scary huh?
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