MAYBE SOMEONE can explain this part of human nature to me...

I HAVE been around the block a few times in my life.
I have seen the dragon, the elephant or whatever beast you wish to conjure that says you have looked that mortality in the eyes and the other guy blinked

I have seen people do heroic courageous things and I have seen people do unbelievably wicked things, and yet they all made sense under the circumstances they were engaged with,
BUT

for the life of me,
I cannot fathom WHY anyone, willfully tortures themselves doing something that they know will cause them great discomfort and pain TO THEMSELVES.

I have seen some of the toughest street cops, I mean people you cross the street to keep away from so they would not notice you, reduced to tears, sweats and agony Because they ate someones HOT horseradish, or sauce or whatever concoction ON PURPOSE, knowing they would be in agony for it.
WHY??? Who does that?
I asked and they could never answer other than do the macho thing and go "Oh, that is good." meanwhile they look like they are on fire and feel that way also and are begging for a glass of milk.

I know people who would eat things they KNEW would cause them great distress, heartburn, bloating, almost terminal gas, and they tell you about it ahead of time that it is going to happen, because it happens to them all the time when they eat it, yet they do it. A buddy of mine who was in the service was in Korea for a while and got hooked on real Korean Kimchi. IT TORE HIM UP... if he wasn't rolling on the floor in agony afterwards he was blowing everything he had eaten in his life out the back end... and he knew it. He knew he was going to suffer and he did it anyway.

Even when it gets to drinking...
People who drink themselves into oblivion, knowing that the next day is going to be a horrible experience... People who drink until they are total alcoholics, it is not like they didn't know what was going to happen, yet, the world is filled with them....

It makes me wonder if there isn't part of lemming DNA in the mix that leads us to such self destructive actions...

It is a part of the human nature that I have never understood.

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MAYBE SOMEONE can explain this part of human nature to me...