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Stop Trying to Control Your Life

Just Live Instead

By Faiz ReesePublished 4 years ago 3 min read
Stop Trying to Control Your Life
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Many times we try to control our life, instead of letting them go. Only by stopping the attempts to give a new course to the river of life and starting to follow the existing one, will we be able to truly feel the taste of life.

When unexpected and unpredictable things start to happen to us, then, as a rule, this is quite annoying. We are beginning to resist what is happening. Often, this protest turns into denial, and we begin to blame ourselves for what happened to someone else. We use phrases like "Why is this happening to me?" And we try to convince ourselves that someone is to blame, but not us. And we're just trying to be innocent victims.

We all expect something from our lives, but expectations are far from always being met. Because of this, we often fill our lives with despair and disappointment.

Life does not require you to be pedantic and orderly, but to trust yourself

Life is sometimes very difficult and even more complicated when we believe that we can be happy only when we are in control. But no matter how appealing the image we sketch in our subconscious, we should at least admit to ourselves that it is completely unreal.

Every person's life consists of both good and bad times, and it all happens for a reason. But how to distinguish a good moment from a bad one? It depends largely on how we look at it.

The fact that we were defeated on the way to the chosen goal does not mean that we have to abandon it. Moreover, it can turn into an opportunity to learn something new and to grow above you. Believe me, everything that happens to us happens only for the better, if we can distinguish this fact.

Do not swim against the current, swim with it

If you can't move in any direction, then life just wants to guide you in the other direction.

So stop blaming other people for making you suffer. Maybe it's just because you let them do it. And, most likely, the key to your suffering is that for now, you do not know how to detach yourself from your past and distance yourself from people whose communication does not lead to anything good.

Sometimes we feel so good in our comfort zone that we stop looking at life calmly and optimistically. We begin to hate change, forgetting that it is necessary.

Maybe you're trying to control your life too?

When difficulties and troubles are overwhelming, it seems to you that your whole world is out of control. You like that everything in your life is arranged and that every day so far has been subject to the established schedule… However, something unexpected happens when you lower your hands and feel like you are walking on a rope over a precipice. You hate the unknown. You believe that any change can only be a change for the worse.

And this perspective on life is exactly what you need to change. You understand that even the darkest situation in life has a bright side. You just have to know how to see it, because it can be quite invisible. And if you always follow the most obvious path, you will never see it. What is that obvious path? The path of complaining, denying, and closing your eyes to everything that is not part of your patterns.

Learn to control your stress and unnecessary worries. But never try to control your own life. Let her take you where she needs to go and don't be afraid of what might happen.

This life is full not only of troubles and sorrows but also of incredible things that happen when we least expect it. That's only if we let them happen.

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