The illusion of control. Jurassic Park again. Life is chaos, but we try to control things anyway. Perhaps it is reassuring that we have control. But the control is limited.
Looking on the other side of the argument, can you can have control within the chaos? Yes? Well, maybe. Okay, you may not have much control at all, but you've got to do something, so you'll try to manage it.
Everything has another side to it. If you look up, you can't see what's happening below. If you don't look up, you can't see what's happening above. Either way, you ability to control is limited by your own limitations. You can only focus on one thing at a time. You have to choose what your focus is.
The title is from Star Wars where Yoda is teaching young Skywalker the ways of the Force.
I might add that the Look Up thing reference came from Barnhardt, and from that I realized that I may need to change what I've been reading. Good stuff at the link she provided.
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