It doesn’t matter what the process is, it can be good, bad or indifferent, it just doesn’t matter. These people are interested in just stopping the process. They have a reason, an elaborate justification to keep you or your cause from moving forward. Perhaps they do not want to see you succeed. Perhaps their life has stopped and they do not know how to navigate a forward motion, be it their own or someone else’s. They have lived in stagnation for so long they can not understand forward motion.
You will have met these individuals; they often work in government jobs as bureaucrats. It is uncanny how they can smell your need and then trounce it into the ground, killing it for all time.
Unbeknownst to most people is an understanding of human behavior. We are creatures of habit. We rarely do anything today that we have not done yesterday. This is important to note, because when we stop the workability of other’s lives, we also stop the workability of our own lives. Destroying another person’s effort often comes with a price tag of destroying one’s own effort. This is a factor not known to most.
Why do we stop forward motion? Why do we question and halt the effort of others? Why can we not facilitate the lives of others in the same way that we would wish others would facilitate our own? Why do some people take pleasure in halting and crippling the efforts and success of others? Further, who has the time to focus on another, in order to destroy their efforts?
More than likely, it a minor thing that piles up into a life. It’s that nugget of resentment that you harbor for that person that makes you want to clog up the workability of the process. It is a remembered upset or a frustrating exchange and now you want that person to suffer for your memory. Or, perhaps, you are just jealous, you wish you were that successful and you cannot stand seeing someone else being successful. Clogging the workability of the process stops all of us from being successful and it is very sad that everyone does not understand this fact.