The blame game

No one wants to believe that what they did, or are doing, causes their problems.

Some of us are more realistic than others and some are rewriting the fairy tales with new ogres and villains casting the curses.

I know one person who blames poverty, poor health and life in general for his situation and all of that is valid to some degree. It does cost more to eat healthy, but there is a line between eating cheaper and eating too many carbs, or too much sugar.

There is also a line between being generous and over spending. 

The bad health that follows years of drinking and smoking and the poverty that follows poor choices is ruthless.

The bravado of the frightened, poorly informed people who dot our lives tries to soften the horrible truth, but they are disintegrating piece by piece in slow and agonizing ways.

I am trying to learn from them rather than follow in their footsteps.