Very nice - I like the way you think.


To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wildflower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake

Someone's been readin out of Oprah's bookself again :D

Nope... Just always thought that way.

you can control yourself to some extent .. you can control your actions.

you can do risk management and minimize the possibilities of negative events which is a form of control.

(speeding, driving drunk, etc - choices within your control to minimize the risk of an accident you cause)

life is about balance.

the balance between realizing (and exercising) what you can control and what you can't is one facet of the larger balance.

all chaos is not balance.

thunder and lightning... againnn. first big storm of the summer and im freaking out. Hold me?

i love thunder and lightning

Thats more of an illusion of control.

Just because YOU aren't drinking and driving doesn't mean that some other guy isn't.

You can be in the best physical shape humanly possible. You can take every safety precaution on Earth - it's still not gonna help when your plane crashes. Or when some jackass blows up your office building. Or when the mugger's gun goes off unexpectedly. Or when the "routine surgery" goes horribly wrong. Or when you trip and stumble into moving traffic.

Nothing is ever guaranteed. I agree wholeheartedly that it's essential to understand what you can and can't control - and, IMO, no matter how much you want to think you can "reduce risks", there are still 30 million more ways to die at any second that you've never even considered.

I guess I just fall somewhere between Absurdism and Existentialism...life has no pint, and that IS the point.Have some fun and do whatever the hell you want to - because what else is there? Live every second that you have, 'cause you could die at any second.

no but it cuts your chances of bad luck down.

sure - there's always the other guy .. but if YOU'RE the other guy .... you have a much greater chance of having bad things happened to you.

think of it as being 'better trained'
if you're better trained - you'll do better at your job .. there will still be assholes but your chances are stilla lot better.

you still have control over your own actions .. or should anyway.

it's like being drunk or not.

I guess it takes one to know one, but I'm just guessing.

you know me too well haha. I actually have been reading a lot of oprahs book club books. The Secret, and a new earth by eckhart tolle