We as humans have a build-in tendency to create patterns, to find meaning and logic behind everything. When he have to go from one place to other, we try the straightest path. Our taste for symmetry is only inversely proportional to our laziness.
This is one of the big struggles. We try to find order in an otherwise chaotic world. It's one of the reasons man tries to depart from nature. Nature can storm on us any time she feels like, and we understandably feel uncomfortable with this unpredictability. So the flow of things in nature happen in a pretty much opposite fashion to what we tend to do.
To illustrate the matter, the way fruits are born on branches hardly follow any pattern. Of course, there are is a logic behind things to make them behave one way or another. Water follows gravity, hence its taste for the lower places. But when I talk about things in nature being random I mean mostly its aesthetic appeal, I mean the lack of exact proportions.
And that's the reason why true asymmetry is harder to achieve than symmetry, because we have the inner tendency to break this random quality of nature. For example, when drawing stars in the sky, for one I know I feel a certain struggle in my mind when trying to think in a random way, as subunconsciously I'll try making things with balanced proportion and equal distances.
This tendency to make symmetric proportion is a perfect example of what I've been calling Vices. It takes some preparation and dedication to loosen automatic, unconscious vices; to allow our mind to behave more freely, more naturally.
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