A study of the human condition

So I've discovered I have this weird habit- I watch movies and TV, read books, and listen to music all looking for another way to look at humanity. As I said...weird. Yet, it's interesting to see what comes out in these medias that allow for some kind of realizations that then lead to a personal change for the better. Ok so now that I've sufficiently freaked everyone out let me explain with an example. Last night roomie and I went to go see Love Happens (which is really cute, btw.) It's about a guy who lost his wife in a car accident and wrote a book on getting over grief based on his experiences. Well, as the story line goes on you learn that he doesn't take his own advice that millions of others have tried and succeeded in getting over grief. It was a pretty good show of how people never seem to take their own advice. We are so busy trying to fix other people that we learn to ignore our own issues and soon deceive ourselves into thinking we don't need help. As the Pharisee standing in the Temple praying to God, "At least I'm not as bad as THAT guy," we stand helping those "worse" than we are and soon we could never be as bad as THOSE people. Yet nothing further from the truth could be true. I know that I've slowly had to realize that yet, I am as bad as "those" people. I've got some issues of my own that I need to take care of before I start pointing my prideful, hypocritical prone finger at others. It's really hard to not let myself do it too. I think...no I know it's part of our humanity- we don't want to be "worse." We want someone else to be worse than us so we can point our finger at them making them feel horrible for what they have done while helping ourselves back on our self made pedestal. So now that realization has been re-iterated in my life I need to work on it some more. :)