Mostly I just thought people weren't really reading this, but also I have been very busy!!!
Unfortunately, I had a thought (it happens), and I felt like typing it out and getting it out of my system.
This morning, I read a posting about collecting comments to find the top 20 reasons LA sucks. When I looked at the comments that were being left, 87% of the people had an LA zipcode that left reasons to hate LA. So I got curious, as I usually do, and I googled top reasons I hate living in.... What I found was lots of people hate where they live. I think I went through about 18 pages and then I got the point, we aren't satisfied.
If we are given the free-will to move anywhere we want, why are we all living in places we dislike? I mean in reality nobody forces you to live somewhere. So my question is, do we choose to live in places we hate or do we end up hating places in which we choose to live? and if the latter is true, then why don't we move? Is it an endless cycle that routine contact leads to discovering every negative aspect of something? In social psychology, we learn that the most difficult part of a relationship is from 6 months to 2 years. This is the point in the relationship where negative aspect of the other individual become most apparent and difficult to hide. We don't end every relationship at 2 years because we weigh the good and bad, and sometimes despite imperfection we find reasons to have lasting relationships. Just like people writing about why they hate Minnesota, the Bay area, Miami, small towns, big towns or New York still choose to continue to live there. So maybe what the list should really be is "The things about my town I hate having to deal with just because I love living in it".
No matter where you are from, you can find things about it that aren't good; if there were a perfect town out there it would eventually become so overcrowded that we would hate it for its perfection. The average individual is never satisfied. Instead of writing lists about everything that is great about where they live (I'm sure there are also plenty of those lists though), we choose to focus on negativity. What is it that is inherent in human beings that causes us to want what we don't have and find reasons to discriminate against what we do have. Do we just enjoy complaining?
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