I’ve long believed that our sense of control is really an illusion. We are blinded to the things that keep us from flying off in a tangent instead of continuing to spin around the sun of our metaphysical solar system.
Our lives revolve around so many things: health, environment, opportunity, circumstance. Any one of these has a trillion variables affecting us in ways that we never see. Effects that combine and compound exponantially until something happens. Sometimes it seems good and sometime it seems bad but most times it is not noticeable.
We go through our days with this illusion that we are in complete control of everything when it may not be that way at all. Thinking about pure control as an individual here are some things that may apply:
- How hard I work (or not to work)
- What I choose to work on
- What I choose to believe (or not to believe)
- What I choose to do (or not to do)
- How I frame the story I tell myself as I go through each day (attitude?)
- What I choose to eat
- How I choose to respond to different types of people
- How I evaluate my responses to different types of people and different situations
- What I choose to teach myself
- The people I choose to be with
There is so much randomness in the universe that true, pure control does not seem like a binary thing. Maybe its more of a spectrum thing or a range and these are things that can influence control into the more part of the spectrum.
