So how do you relate to what happens in your world
anyway?
If you’re the type that likes to micromanage things,
as in writing the script to which you expect others to conform thereby
performing to your expectations, you can reasonably expect a lifetime of
inclement weather.
The why of this is simplicity itself because if you crunch
the numbers it becomes obvious that there is only one of you and a whole world
full of everyone else.
Your powers of
persuasion notwithstanding, the odds that the reality of any given situation, as
manifested at street level, will be faithful to your conceptualization of how
things should be done can be charitably described as zilch, nada, and zero.
The truth is that the only script you expect to be
read and performed to your expectations is the one you write for yourself that delineates
your reaction to those who are not with the program as you see it.
There’s a great irony here in relation to those who relate
to the actions of others with equanimity regardless of the provocation rather
than simply gritting their teeth and bearing the situation.
In contradistinction to one who attempts to dictate
reality and who seldom, if ever, gets his way, there is another who reacts to
the reality of any given situation with a smile that is tethered to the heart. He interfaces with the world b’nachas
(softly) as a gut reaction default position and because he is samayach with
whatever script someone else chose to write for himself it is as if he made
that script his own.
And it will always turn out his way, not because he
dictates it, but because he accepts it.
