Control is an Illusion

Life gives us these little reality checks here and there. Just so that we can un-check 'control' from our lives. Control is an illusion. We think things are going our way, everything's running smoothly, but it is so because it is destined to be so... its no grand work of ours. Those are the times when we actually forget that we are not the ones in control of our lives - bigger forces are. Invisible forces much stronger than us. We dont feel them when things go as planned, or as desired. But once they take a turn; when things start going hay-wire, when we forget that planning is not everything - thats when reality knocks hard on our door and we then have no ammunitions, no protection, no choice but to surrender..... humbly.
Sometimes, we need that.
When you look back in life as a whole... you can almost feel the forces operating in the past. Chances are, they are operating right now as you read. They are in motion even when you are not. THEY run your lives, you dont.
May the one God of all the forces have mercy on all of us.

In The Last Samurai, Katsumoto asks Algren if he believes that a man can change his destiny. Algren replies, “I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed.”