“We have more rights to control our own lives than we have to control anything else and exercising this right brings happiness.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from From Chaos to Order, chapter 1
In other words
Almost nothing that happens to you is yours to decide. The exception sits closest to hand and gets the least use: how your own life runs, where your authority is close to total and largely unspent. Taking it up changes the odds further out as well. A life arranged on purpose gets some grip even on forces it cannot command, because those forces now meet somebody who has already settled which way to go.
AI-generated from the author's own text.
Elsewhere
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