Are you in control of your life?
What a question, am I right? I mean, if you really want to put yourself into an existential tailspin, start thinking about whether you are or are not “in control” of your life.
You didn’t choose to be born (presumably… depending your particular spiritual views, maybe you did). You didn’t choose the circumstances of your birth, the culture you were born into, your family history or your genes and DNA. You can’t choose whether the sun goes nova or the earth opens up under your feet.
Ultimately… what exactly do you have control over?
Just one thing: Your response.
You control how you will respond to any and all of the above (the stuff you survive, anyway).
And even if you can’t control your physical response, you can control your emotional response. You can control how you will frame everything that has happened to you, how you will interpret it, how you will or will not incorporate it into your own personal story.
That, ultimately, is all the control any of us really have. But it’s a lot. It’s powerful. Those choices can influence our lives, and even reach out beyond our lives into the world itself.
Choose. And choose wisely.
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