Don't listen to me....

       Today's mission ..Should you chose to accept it... Is to answer
the age old question of Why don't we listen to ourselves.
       This will be a short post for me because I have absolutely no
answer.  Ohh I've given it plenty of thought,  I lay awake  at night
pondering just why we do and feel things that we know are not right
but still trudge along doing them anyway.  I even have conversations
with myself condemning things 'as' I'm doing them.
      Overeating , or unhealthy eating I should say, is a perfect example.
I can't tell you how many times I've been completely full and satisfied
in the evening and still wandered out to the kitchen and grabbed a snack.
I know better.. I know it's bad for me and I tell myself that as I'm
unwrapping my snickers bar.  But do I listen?  nope.
      Being neat.  I can't count the number of times I've kicked off my shoes
and told myself .."Take that extra three seconds to put them where they
belong ".. I CAN'T HEAR ME...  Or that tool that needs put away after
use so I would at least have half a chance of finding it next time I need
it.  Na.. right here on the bench will be ok... not ! 
     I have a friend that is very particular about his food.  Almost always
fresh vegetables.. only the beef we have butchered locally and so on. He
accused me of trying to kill him once on a camping trip by cooking
dehydrated potatoes and canned roast beef.  Yet this man smokes two to
three packs of cigarettes a day.  Does he know they are bad for him?  I'm
sure he does. Does he ever think about what harm he is causing his body
ever time he lights up?  Probably not.  I'm sure he knows.. he just refuses
to listen to himself.  We all make similar choices.
     I think the same can be said for the people in our lives.  I know I have
friends that I probably should distance myself from..  Heck I could be one
of those people to you or to other people.  I'm not always the best role
model for how we should live our lives.  I'm not one to tire of friendships
as some people do.  Sure sometimes people take different paths in life and
we lose touch  but I spend a lot of my quiet times in the woods remembering
old friends on hunting trips and such so although they may be out of sight
they are never completely out of mind.  Then too ..people change. Some
have had experiences in their lives that completely changed their views
and possibly make them totally incompatible  with you.  We know
this and tell ourselves to let them go.  They are a completely different
person now.  But we don't listen.  Something inside of us still wants to hold
on.  I guess our memories outweigh our common sense.
      So I guess that's how it is.. If we're not going to listen to ourselves we
are surly not going to listen to others...  I never really trusted my judgment
anyway...haha
      As the song lyrics go..
 I got it through my head.. I just can't break it to my heart........