Day 128

'All  under control', Pen and Marker on Paper

The struggles we have on a daily basis all seem to boil down to the principles of chaos and order, the difficulty in maintaining control over the varying strands of our every day existence. I see a major part of being in control is asserting yourself in a situation and understanding your role within that. There are many things that we utilise to attempt to gain some leverage on any given situation to wrestle it under our control. We make notes so we know what we have done in the past, we make lists so we know what we need to do next and we make plans so that we know what we want to achieve later. We have also found this ability to generate numerous gadgets, gizmo's and accoutrements as a means of limiting chaos, as they provide us with further tools to make things more efficient, more reliable or just more simple. You can also see that many people like to rely on routine, many people rely on the kindness of others and many people know that a lot of the time you can only really rely on yourself if you want to get things in order. All to often we wait and wait for things to fall into place when really the chances of this happening are slim to none, it is imperative then that if wish to have everything 'all under control' that we realise that the onus is firmly on us to do so.