SELF CONTROL
Friday, April 16, 2021 - daily column #6730
Each day or our entire life is riddled with inconvenient interruptions.
Should we care?
Are minor inconveniences outweighed by internal raging when our focus is messed with by some noise or text message?
When something happens, it cannot be avoided.
What if it’s an emergent warning of impending doom?
Though many difficulties might be avoided or prevented, most are not in our control.
More particularly, all people are beyond our control. Save for one, ourselves.
When a housefly or mosquito invades my space, penetrates my contemplative silence, its impact can be enormous – a distraction from my concentration, disturbance/inconvenience at that moment. But, soon, that pest goes away, is let out a window, or I swatted it out of existence. Sometimes I can tune it out, ignore it, but I think best in silence, in quiet darkness.
Reader feedback:
I put a pretty low value on the data big brother has been compiling on me. I’m just not that interesting. I’m more concerned about increasing disparity between rich and poor. That is something that will eventually, ultimately, result in mass railing against the machine, RH, Calgary, AB
Having a big brother would be fine if we could also see what big brother was up to …, NB, Calgary, AB
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