I have been doing a lot of thinking lately. Well, honestly I do a lot of thinking period. But lately I've been thinking about why I do certain things, why I try certain things, and then why I usually quickly abandon those same things. I recently read the book Wanting , by Luke Burgis. I'm not a big nonfiction reader (except for my Catholic or spiritual reading), but I ran across a YouTube video in which Burgis was talking about "mimetics" which is a term used to describe why we want the things we want, and this is the topic of his book. So I got the book and plowed through it. Think of mimetics like mimicking and you've got the basic gist. We want things we want because someone else wants it. So we essentially "mimic" someone we admire or want to be like (for good or bad). There's a lot of deep psychological and sociological stuff that you can unpack with this, but I'm not a psychologist or sociologist, so if you want a more coherent explanatio...