Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What are you in control of?

Comments

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

myself

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm That's just launched a million questions in my head :D

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

My happiness. I am walking anti-depression, hence the icon, the meteorlogical symbol for an anti-cyclone.

Also, sometimes I control the weather with my mind.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Make spring come quick!

[moonlights-lair.livejournal.com]

Nothing...

Control is an illusion, a game people play with themselves and others.

The best we all can do is to say that we 'pretend' to control ourselves and our reactions to all the other things we have no control over...

Moonlight.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to see that...

[kabandra.livejournal.com]

Not much.

I basicly can only control myself, and not even that well.

On a positive note, with my most sane self, I sometimes can control how I think or perceive a situation or I can control myself to do what I have to do, instead of what I want to do, at appropriate times.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

**hugs you**

[wingswithwar.livejournal.com]

I can open and close my hands at will.

heh. . .most of the time.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:P

:D

I find that one challenging at times... I can't even stop myself from taking on a slack jawed expression when I'm concentrating...

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I am comfortably in control of my Illusion of Control... until I'm not, and then I freak out and stuff.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Doesn't the knowledge that it is an illusion reduce the freak outs?

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Nope.

Humanity is wired to find comfort within the daily routine for stability. We are cogs within the great clock of the cosmos. My job as a cog is to live my life and propel some small measure of insignificant history along. To do that, I am an animal geared for control - otherwise life would drive me insane. I must believe in my own power to get things done and impose control over my micro-environment.

When something comes along to remind me that I don't have control after all, then I have a natural biological reaction of freaking out until I have exerted my will so that I can wrap that comfy blanket of illusion to protect myself from the cold Monday morning that is Life.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope that blanket ticks away nicely for a god long time! ;)

[electricsoupie.livejournal.com]

my faith

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

A powerful thing, is faith...

[moonlights-lair.livejournal.com]

I just read your profile for the first time!

I KNEW there were at least a thousand reasons I like you...

(Some are even listed there! *giggle*)

Your lady is as fortunate in you as you are in her!

(That was a 'moonlight-ism'...if it didn't make sense, that's okay - do not adjust your set.)

*smirk*

Moonlight.

[moonlights-lair.livejournal.com]

Ayoub?

Ignore that last comment eh?

I just read it over and, it made me feel like a member of the 'Carry On Gang'. (I swear! Never type before you say it out loud *rolls eyes*)

Moonlight.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't worry... **hugs**

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

Cool!

[mysticpickle.livejournal.com]

The remote control. I can hit any button I want. As long as it is the one to our tv. Dad's or the kids is a whole new issue.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Pretty much nothing anymore. Age sucks.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:(

That does suck...

[empatia.livejournal.com]

The coffee machine...yeah, that's it, just the coffee machine.

[empatia.livejournal.com]

P.S..his name is Joe, my coffee machine that is.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Joe makes Joe! :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm Coffee!

[empatia.livejournal.com]

A little bit of irony...after bragging that the only thing in my life i have control over is Joe, lol he kind of blew up this morning...I couldn't stop laughing while I was wiping coffee grinds off the counters and walls. So much for control.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!


Oops... Sorry! Poor Joe!

[crescent-fresh.livejournal.com]

your mind. now stop thinking that.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I know what you're thinking, and you have my permission... For now...

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

MY bladder!

Well, for the moment at least ;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!