I have a tendency to block out the unwanted. It's a survival method mastered since and early bird age. Mind games do help the helpless no matter what philosophers say. I believe that everything happens for a reason, and too often that reason is a lesson birthed from bad luck sprinkled with karma with a capital K. Pain is seductive. The way it creeps ever so silently and makes itself at home Uninvited things tend to do that best, understandably: Where else are they supposed to go? I ask myself that question every day because I am homeless. I have a tendency to block out the unwanted : I have a tendency to block out myself.