Out of control

If left entirely up to chance and the forces that be, our lives will lose all order and plunge into chaos. Without deliberate efforts to maintain order, our lives can easily turn chaotic. The ease of flicking a light switch is what stands between this orderly way of living that human beings enjoy and destructive chaos. The person who said that it’s easier to destroy than it is to build spoke very well. If we just choose to let go of our efforts to maintain order, life will come to a standstill, with problems and destruction plaguing everyone, and no real progress being made on a personal level and in society as a whole.

Life is like a road system and we are the users; everyone wants to go somewhere. The whole system is made useful and efficient because of the principles, laws and rules we agree to maintain. Imagine what would happen if all the principles, laws and rules are waived and everyone is told to just do what they want, when they want to? There would be chaos. Everyone would do something to move, but because of the lack of coordinated movements, every move will hinder everyone else’s progress.

A person with an orderly life is an asset to those around him or her; solving problems and improving the quality of life they enjoy. A person living a chaotic life is somewhat of a burden as he or she attracts and creates problems that often require other people’s efforts to solve. No one lives in isolation and a life in regression pulls back the progress of other lives, in the way that a negative number reduces the value of the whole quantity or set. It is to society’s collective benefit for people to live orderly lives individually.

Similar to how the absence of order results in traffic jams on roads, a lack of order in one’s life brings it to a standstill. Movements and changes in one area of your life will have negative effects on the other areas as well. The lack of prioritization and coordination will make it hard to make any progress. Things will spiral out of control.

We have the most rights to control our own lives than we have to control anything else and exercising this right brings happiness. Yes, not everything about our lives is under our control; some elements are ours to control and others are not. The expediency of exercising control over that which we have the power to in our lives lies in the less obvious effect of it giving us indirect control over the “forces that be” as well.