XSK wrote:seppuku wrote:I like to think about life as a pair concentric circles. The inner and smaller circle is the circle of control. The outer and larger circle is the circle of influence. Everything else outside of that is the province of fate. Things you cannot control.
For me, the goal is to place things in the right places. I aspire to be fully aware of the things that I can control so that I can control them to my advantage. I aspire to be fully aware of the things I can influence so that I can influence them to my advantage. I aspire to be aware of the things that I can neither control nor influence so that I know to do absolutely nothing about them. Above all, I aspire to keep expanding the circles, to grow my circle of control and my circle of of influence. To eat into the territory of the unknown.
The Westgate attack and its aftermath will be in different circles for different people: The circle of control for the Al Shabaab, the circle of influence for the NSIS and maybe in neither circle for the kindergarten kid in Nyamasaria. In my assessment, why it happened to other people and not to me is neither in my circle of control nor in my circle of influence. I will not pay the matter any further attention.
This is too deep. Circles, control, influence. What is tycho all about? remind me!
@tycho is about seeing his vanity and evil. My blood pressure shot a trifle when I came across your post @XSK. But then, I know how the evil in me operates, and I being Man God, confess, and repent, and overcome this evil spirit. Hahaha!
I am about something thing else. Think about what @seppuku has said. Don't you think he/she has described the planetary structure of the atom, and is simply saying that it doesn't cost him/her any sleep because Nairobi didn't experience a tsunami?
But alas, it's a wonderful piece of agnosticism, I must accept.