Linear thinking

I have this really bad habit of trying to figure stuff out. You can drive yourself nuts.

See, we humans are so used to solving problems, we want to be able to isolate one event or condition in the past that has caused the problem. The trouble is there isn't just one cause. The truth is it could have been one of many causes, or it could have been all of them at once. There's no way to tell.

Scientific experiments are all about isolating one variable to see its effect on something, but even in science, there are variables that creep in and confound the process. We'll never know and so maybe it's better to stop trying to pinpoint a time when things went bad and start focusing on how we can change the picture now.

The fact is, buried in all our context, in this tangled web we weave, we all need someone beside us. Besides, how far are the answers to the "why?" questions going to get us? The fact is we do not need answers as much as we need someone who can help us change the future.