You ever think about what a silly response this is to anything?

A friend was telling me yesterday she was going on vacation because she was stressed. My reflexive response to that was to say “I don’t blame you!”. And then I thought about it and how stupid that sounded.

Saying “I don’t blame you” implies that the person did something you would normally blame them for, right? If someone says “I punched that guy in the face” and you knew for a fact the guy probably deserved to get punched in the face, even though it’s generally a wrong thing to do, “I don’t blame you” might make sense. But who would blame anyone for going on vacation? An asshole, that’s who. So, “I don’t blame you” is really inappropriate 99 percent of the time its used.

This has been my profound thought for the week.