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Originally Posted by urgeok2
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.
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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.