Effects and their Causes

One thing I do not understand is how some people do not recognize things as the effects of specific causes. Here are a few examples.

Effect: A person is always looking for lost items. Cause: He does not keep things in set places and has no organizational plan.

Effect: A person has few friends. Cause: He does not make a good impression on new people he meets, he does not start conservations when he sees people he knows, and his comments to people are insensitive if not mean.

Effect: A person is obese. Cause: He eats out of habit not need, has no sense of portion control, does not make good food choices, and does almost no physical activity.

Effect: A person chokes on food. Cause: He puts large amounts of food into his mouth and does not chew them enough before attempting to swallow.

Effect: A person's computer runs slow and crashes. Cause: A bunch of programs are running in the background and a lot of unnecessary stuff was installed.

Effect: A person does not accomplish anything during a weekend. Cause: He does not make plans to do things, he spends time in front of the computer with no purpose, and he sleeps a lot of the time away.

I could go on, but I do not want to get autobiographical. Plus, it is always easier to see what causes the effects in other people's lives than mine.

I think these relationships are easy to see, which could be my training in physics. In physics there are definite forces and processes that act upon objects. If you want to know how something arrived at its present location and state run the laws backwards in time and account for everything that acted upon the object. While many factors and influences are unknown or uncontrollable, a lot can be learned and controlled with what is known.

There are a few effects in my life I do not like. When I look into the causes, I am only a few steps away from fixing them.