There are times in life when nothing seems to go right.
In fact, in his case, the man’s entire life had been an ongoing string of things going wrong. He had often spent time going through these events in an effort to remember them all. There were too many! Besides, what did his mate tell him in the pub the other night, after he’d complained about all of his life’s woes? He suggested that he shouldn’t dwell on the effects, but rather the cause of things. He said a good long stint of self-reflection could do no harm. He said there was so much power in self-analysis. So, it was this advice, this idea, that has him still in bed on a Sunday morning, long after he would normally get up. He knew there were things about himself that probably didn’t help. He began to form a mental list.
As a kid he remembers he never did much studying or handing in homework. He knows he copied other kid’s homework and cheated when doing exams. He was always being really rude to teachers; that got him into a lot of trouble. Healthwise; he lived on fast food and take-aways, always took far too much sugar and was a heavy drinker. He was always in debt on his credit card, gambling didn’t help. He kept letting the overdraft charges build up. In short, he did have a habit of living above his means.
After thinking it all through, he couldn’t see how the cause of any of this was in any way the fault of other people… but he was sure it was!