When Life Happens: The Heart and 'Control'
Life doesn't ask. It just arrives. (Image created by Chat GPT) I've written before about how we don't really have control over ' anything ' and how life unfolds according to the universe like a script we don't get to edit. But if there's one thing I do believe we do have control over, it's our reactions to what happens to us. We are all human at the end of the day. Emotions get the best of us at times. Sometimes we say things we don't mean, hurt others unintentionally, or act in ways we later regret. But still, I feel that our reaction is the one thing that sits within our grasp. When the world feels like it has spun out of our 'control', how do we choose to react? Do we panic? blame? let go? Personally, I'm still learning how to manage my own reactions. It's not easy. But I've come to realize; if I don't, the only person who truly suffers is me, not anyone else. It's me who loses sleep. It's me who lies awake, rep...