Rearranging rationales

Funny observation.

Sometimes stuff happens. Natural disasters. Robberies. Missed promotions. The economy. Playoff losses. Cancer.

When it occurs to you, you have to deal with it. However, few people have a thought or an opinion about negative things happening to them. So when those things actually occur, you tend to rationalize these after the fact, you know, after the emotions have died down.

The more time passes, the more socially acceptable the rationalizations become. At first you're like: "Bitch quarterback couldn't throw a dent in a pack of butter." Later you're more like: "The Patriots gameplan for the defense did account for his off-pace passing game." And even more later, "It's just a game. There's more important things in life than a Super Bowl..."

And yet, this line of reasoning isn't really how we feel. We deserve the right to be angry or upset. We reserve the right to be unhappy. That's how the best songs get written.