Blog Post 10 of 12

Rodney Jones is arguing about the impulsive nature of humans and how we, as a species, tend to discard things that we value in fits of excessive emotion. It is the occasional  of people to behave in an irrational manner and blindly throw away the things that we enjoy. Jones then makes the point of the instant regret people have immediately after this discarding of the beloved. It is only when something is absent that we miss it. It ties in rather neatly with the idea of "you don't know what you have until it's gone."