I forget continually. And I am reminded continually. We labour under the illusion of control.
Everything is a risk, a gamble. Anything can happen with varying degrees of probability. Fact is that bad things happen quite frequently: tsunamis, wars, plagues, famine ....
Bad things happen so frequently that we are in danger of suffering disaster fatigue.
The illusion of control enables us to act in the hope that we can make a difference! We can and we do - mostly through the law of unintended consequences.
Control is an illusion with great utility: behave as if you are in control - and keep in mind that you are not.
Life is lived best in the maintained tension of opposites.
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