IT'S ALL ABOUT CONTROL

So like a teeter totterist, the man on the bottom in the picture to the left is the one in control. How we gain control, what controls us, and how we become out of control affects us in different ways.

We gain control by position. Position can be earned or forced. It can also be given.

What controls us can be natured or nurtured. It, too, can be forced upon us. It too can be freely given.

Losing control or being out of control can be habitual or reactionary. It cannot be forced upon us, but we can choose if we desire.

I watched a neighbor totally lose control with some lawn workers at her house yesterday. When they weren't suiting her, she grabbed the lawn mower (the item, not the person) and proceeded to show him how to mow and lower the back end to cut on a hill. He didn't seem impressed. And when she turned her back, he went back to mowing the way he wanted to.

Then she got after the hedge trimmer (the person not the item.) She also disarmed him and showed him how to trim. This time she added a gesture pointing two fingers to her head indicating he should think. In between the two outbreaks, she's on her cell, presumably calling the company assigned those tasks for our subdivision.

She must have gotten someone of a supervisory nature, because he came to see her in action. Pointing, throwing arms to the sky, yelling at him she continued her out of control tirade. He yelled back. And after all the yelling had subsided, she was worse for wear, but her yard didn't look any different to me that it normally did.

All I wanted to do was blog and surf the net (you don't hear that much anymore), but all the action just outside my window caused a temporary distraction. Had I wanted to see someone act stupid and lose control, I'd have gone to the golf course.