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Originally posted by Clodfobble
Sounds as if you're saying, 'When we fuck things up, we continually try to fix them,' with the corollary, 'When things don't go our way, we still keep trying.' Doesn't sound too bad to me.
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I was actually questioning why we have a 'way' in the first place. What is 'our way'? This is surely the root of the discussion. Of course, if we have a preference, we will continually and cyclicly be disappointed or elated (and all levels betwixt). This disappointment can only lead to angst (and thus the desire to 'fix'), which is deepened further by the elation when things
do match our 'way' as the drop to inevitable disappointment is that much bigger (and the biggest difficulty is realising that you can't have everything your way, GWB). What I want to know is, why does the existence of a 'way', or preference, automatically lead to the desire to control a situation? Is disappointment actually a bad thing? If it is, we have to agree that we should have no preferences whatsoever.