I have given up trying to find logical reasoning in many of the issues I come across. Generally I do too much planning, trying to find perhaps the most efficient way of doing all my errands, so I'd say that giving up in this area is something of a step forward.
For example, I have ceased to look for a reason as to why, during our college festival, in which teams from other schools come to compete in music, dance, etc. from about 10-7, the college has decided that we will not be allowed to be off campus from 7:30-9:30. This rather impeded our plans to celebrate my friend's birthday on Friday. They also did not tell us in advance this would be the policy. I can't come up with any reasoning, and so failed to spend more energy on it.
Or, perhaps, why a restaurant with a 9:00 opening and extensive breakfast menu would, on a Saturday at 11, not be open.
I used to think there was some logic behind these kinds of phenomena that could be found deeply embedded in culture or tradition, or else were a form of social radicalism, but I don't believe this to be the case, as my Indian friends find it equally perplexing (though perhaps less frustrating). I've now come to accept that there are phenomena in the world that defy the powers of reason.
For example, I have ceased to look for a reason as to why, during our college festival, in which teams from other schools come to compete in music, dance, etc. from about 10-7, the college has decided that we will not be allowed to be off campus from 7:30-9:30. This rather impeded our plans to celebrate my friend's birthday on Friday. They also did not tell us in advance this would be the policy. I can't come up with any reasoning, and so failed to spend more energy on it.
Or, perhaps, why a restaurant with a 9:00 opening and extensive breakfast menu would, on a Saturday at 11, not be open.
I used to think there was some logic behind these kinds of phenomena that could be found deeply embedded in culture or tradition, or else were a form of social radicalism, but I don't believe this to be the case, as my Indian friends find it equally perplexing (though perhaps less frustrating). I've now come to accept that there are phenomena in the world that defy the powers of reason.
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