I love analyzing systems. I find myself doing it without even thinking.
Systems allow us to make finite those parts of the infinite that are bounded by the relationship between a system’s unique parts. But, in reality, relationships extend beyond those boundaries. Any system is just part of a bigger system and any part of one system is a system of its own. As mortals, we struggle to comprehend things that are as unbounded as that, but it is, nevertheless, reality. The degree to which we don’t understand how higher and lower order systems define and affect each other is the degree to which we are unable to address any problems or inefficiency that might exist in any of the related systems.
I had the very disheartening experience, recently, of talking to several people who thought that they could solve a problem without realizing that the system level they were analyzing was not the level at which the problem originated. It was all the more disheartening when the Lord revealed to me that if I (at that moment, anyway) told them what system level to address, they wouldn’t believe me. It caused me to feel a deep sorrow, and realizing that I probably do the same thing more often than I am aware of made me want to discover and analyze systems even more.