Out of the blue, his wife did a very bad thing to him and we were discussing it. Why had she done it? How could she? I said maybe there’s something you missed or forgot; some word or significant event you overlooked that triggered her selfish, cruel act. He shook his head and snapped at me, ‘No, I’m not doing that this time. I’m not going to try and search for some logical, acceptable reason because there isn’t any. What she did was wrong, that’s all: flat-out, black and white wrong. We’re always trying to find reasons to rationalize others’ awful behavior. Well, sometimes it isn’t justifiable—it’s only *bad*, pure and simple. Sometimes people are just 100% shitty and their actions prove it.’
Jonathan Carroll
Posted on September 28th 2009 in Jonathan Carroll
