reasons for things people do

a lot of times, i forget there are several layers of reasons why certain people do certain things. there's the most obvious reason; then there's the more important but difficult-to-see reason.

sometimes, they don't tell us because they want to keep it a secret; other times, we wouldn't understand at that point anyway so they'd rather stay silent; still other times, they made it pretty clear, we just weren't paying enough attention.