CONTROL IS ILLUSIONARY

Have you ever tried to control things? What a silly question?

A whole life is spent in doing so. We live under the false notion that we have the power to control everything but if that be the case why do things go out of control? It is because one cannot control anything as he himself is under the control of someone else. Every day we come across situations going out of our control. Only yesterday we were under the impression that everything is under control. We forget that what we call control is nothing but temporary relief. 

Things change too fast and what appears to be right method of control proves to be too weak to handle the changed situation, because there are more uncertainties than we are incapable of predicting or foreseeing.

In order to get out of this helplessness we read jokes. We know the jokes are on us and on our helplessness, only the names have been changed, and that is why we enjoy them. If someone tries to collect jokes from all over the world, groups and communities, he will possibly be surprised that there are the same jokes told in different words in different parts of the world. All jokes put together will not even make a table book. This is because problems everywhere are common and tools of control are as weak here as at any other place. People there are also under the control of someone else.

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t is generally said that one generation earns fortunes by sheer hard work and foresightedness, second generation enjoys the fruits and adds a little and the third generation squanders it away. There are very few families with wealth and fortunes for generations. Be it our bygone Rajas and Maharajas of Hindu era or Nababs and Badshahas of Mughal era. Where are they and where are their fortunes? They too thought that everything was under control but that was not to be.

There is a hidden message in this and that is try not to control, try to laugh away.