When all else fails

What motivates people, how do they know when they are supposed to get up and move on to the next thing? For the most part, I'm a watcher, I watch people and analyze behavior. It's what and who I am. So, as the guy who had been sitting at his laptop started to pack up his belongings I considered, that he might have to be somewhere, or the internal clock said it was time to scram.
As for bigger and better things; I wonder how many assassinations and CoupD'etat this country's government representatives are responsible for; all of them, some, car accidents, plane crashes, reasonable leaders being removed and horrible multi-national proxy replacing what could have been a stabilizing and peaceful force, all in the name of oil, drugs, money, power, sex, salt, coinage, skins, hides, ivory, or just ever lovin life.