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How The Smallest Things Can Have the Biggest Impacts on Our Lives
How to Identify & Manage Them
In a BBC article revealing the disturbing details of what Dominique Pelicot did to his wife of 38 years author Laura Gozzi notes that the phase he spent on the internet talking to people in open forums and chat rooms was a trigger for what would come later.
His now-ex-wife noticed that her husband started spending more time online in his late 50s, but she had no idea what he was doing there.
We might wonder if his access to certain materials gave birth to an idea or if it remained hidden in his subconscious the entire time.
As a true crime enthusiast, I find it fascinating to dig into why people do what they do. What was the thing that took them from being a lot like the rest of us to being on national news for a horrendous crime?
The why people do what they do might be best left to psychiatrists and researchers to figure out, but how things start is something we can all identify.
“A little hole in the ship sinks it
A little stab at the heart kills a man
A small thought
A little look”
— Charles L Allen
