Why is it that with all the best intentions people never seem to actually help when they're trying to do just that?
'I'll do that for you' tends to mean 'I'll cock that up then you can spend twice the time fixing it than it would have taken you to do it yourself in the first place'.
With this in mind-why do we, I mean human beings as a species, yearn for companionship? Do we like fixing other peoples mistakes? Does it make us feel that we're more worth-while as a person or inflate our self worth above the worth of the people around us? Like we're indispensable and the world would actually stop, even just for a moment if we ceased to be?
Get a group of people together and give them a task-watch the roles the different characters play, I bet most of them will try to take the lead stating in one way or another why their idea is the best or their theory fits above all others. They will prove this with rushed statements that don't really make sense when you unpick them. The real leaders, the ones worth following or at least listening to, are the ones that sit back a bit, listen to other's ideas, steal the best bits and use other's hasty statements to disprove them while strengthening their own arguments, they think through what they need to achieve before opening their mouths. People feel the need to take on everything to prove that they can do it, those that know they can but want an efficient way to do something shut up and think it out first. Those who want the world to see their achievements are the ones who rush in and balls it all up.
And when I thought it through and said 'I'll do it myself' I knew that would be the easiest way to go...
But you had to rush in while I thought about it. Just as well I wasn't thinking 'how shall I do it' but 'how shall I fix this when he's done'.