Control our lives?

Is not each of us in control of our lives?  It is true.  We are.  So many times, we feel like we have no control over how things shape up.  So many times, we feel like we are losing control, that things spiral out of control.  It is easy to fall into that trap, though.  Yes, there are times when things don't happen the way we want or plan.  There are times when we don't have a say in how something turns out.  However, it is a mistake to think that in aggregate, we have little control over our life and the course it takes.  Come on, really now?  Take a look around you.  There are thousands - no - millions, of people who actually do not have any control over their life.  They don't have a say, they don't have a choice.  They don't have freedom, or the luxury to question, to even think that it is possible that their life could be or should be any different.  Makes me think - what moment of randomness deigned me to be who I am, where I am...such that I am able to live my life.

So anyway, you and I? We are in control.  We have control.  We just like to think - way more often than we should- that we don't have control.  That we are helpless victims of destiny.  That there is nothing to do but come to terms with the fact that we don't control our life.

Its crazy, really.  So easy to fall into that trap.  And so difficult to admit to ourselves, that we are really in charge of what happens in our life.  So difficult to accept, and so difficult to take responsibility for how things have come to be.  For how we have made them happen to be.