Destruction is fun. If you don’t believe me, just follow any two-year-old around for a while, and you’ll see what I mean. I’m guessing that there isn’t a two-year-old on earth who can walk past a stack of blocks, a pile of books, a newly folded pile of clothes or any other neatly stacked array of objects without feeling the overwhelming need to knock it down. And once they do, it’s all smiles and laughter.

It’s fun for adults too. I’m just figuring this out myself, but after I had the opportunity to smash some old shelves with a large hammer, I figured out why kids like to destroy stuff so much. It’s fun. Honestly, I was looking around my house and garage for other old things that needed to be removed, just so I could swing that hammer a few more times. (For the record, putting up the new shelves wasn’t nearly as amusing.)