The further you go, the more apparent it is how little you actually control. Or, at least, that should be the case. If it isn’t, I wonder how you have learned to relate to suffering. Perhaps, you haven’t really learned that at all because other things have left you concluding that you know how to avoid suffering. But, the wise know that isn’t really possible. So, the aberration is simply that you think you can.
But, it doesn’t take much to detect what all is forfeited by that conclusion.
There is so much that happens in life that has nothing to do with us. So, to think we are also responsible for for it is…arrogant, to say the least.
The truth might be closer to we are responsible for how we respond to most of the things in our lives.
This is no small distinction.
