Mediocre Bad Guys

This is for posterity.

Let’s say you went to a pet store and saw a dog you fell in love with because of its bark. Would you then take the dog home and yell at it and tell it that it was stupid for barking? Would you try to teach the dog how to meow or moo instead? No, of course not. Doing so would be unreasonable and ridiculous.

You would probably say a person who did this was irrational or even crazy. Yet if you fall in love with bad people, then yell at them and tell them they're stupid when they do bad things, isn't that the same thing? Isn't that weird? Dogs bark. It's what they do.

Don’t try to teach a dog to meow and don’t try to teach bad people how to be good. It’s their life and they can live it as they like. Also, think about how fussing at bad people makes you look. If this bad person has enough time and will to jerk you around in the same environment you try and thrive in (but can't), how can you call him a sucker?

As the old saying goes, if you can’t handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Find a kinder, gentler life with less maniacs and more stable people. You will probably win less, but you might manage to hold on to your sanity a little longer.

'hours in the rain and dried out somehow'