How Much Of Your Life Do You Deserve To Control?

@gewcew23 (8007)
United States
December 20, 2009 7:52am CST
I believe that this is a simple question, should you control all of your life, none of your life, or some of your life? The reason why I ask this question is your life is your life yet everyone and their dog feel as if they have some ability to tell you how to live your life.
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@terrile (97)
• United States
21 Dec 09
The simple answer is all of it. But the truth is, if you live a normal life in normal society you will have to share that control. You hand out bits of it to get something in return. Your boss controls x amount of hours of your life in exchange for the wage you earn. your spouse controls x amount in exchange for a healthy loving relationship. If everyone and their dog want to control your life, what are they willing to give in return that is of worth to you? If nothing, tell them to sod off.
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
20 Dec 09
You should be able to control everything about your life, including where you work, your profession,where you worship, what you think and believe, and how you live your life. The government, nor anyone else should have any type of dictatorial power over you.
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
20 Dec 09
That is how I think yet so many defer, it is so aggravating.
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
7 Jan 10
The thing is so many people feel they have the best advice and the way they feel something should be done is the best way, sometimes they go so far as to think it's the only way... All this is common to human beings, within reason and all should learn to control it and learn to be tolerant, and then throughout life, learn that we are not always right, nor are we the authority on things. But it gets dangerous when people band together into a group or party and start devising means to impose their view, ways, ideals and ways of doing things on others! But this is what humans do, that and work and plot to seize controls for profits,etc, this is why checks and balances upon powers is the oNly way to go! It took hundreds of years of history and struggle before mankind came up with the Magna Charter, and then after time wound on, the (u.s.) Constitution, where governing bodies are kept small and their powers are checked by other governing bodies or branches.. so all checks each other. When some bright do gooder, or group of do gooders, succeed in changing those balances of power and the Constitution, look out and we better hold on to our seats, cause it's going to be a chilling ride.. just as has always happened throughout history. No Virginia, man has not evolved and is not becoming better, more loving, more fair and equitable - And! Look out when it becomes a fair and equitable world governing.. then there shall be no checks. No balances. And frankly some of the people in seats in that group, well, we could look into their past to find out what would be in all our future.. But I feel many are content to march along to some idealistic marching song.. with a dream and a vision, that will turn into a nightmare. It's good to want the dream.. but most utopias of men only work out that way for a privileged few. Read the history. Human nature has not changed.
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• United States
20 Dec 09
I can control all of it if I want but that becomes really exhaustive, I just let God have control, he has a better plan for me and he has a network of people to help me too.
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• United States
24 Jan 10
Know one should have the right to tell someone what or what not they can do depending on a persons age. For example children needes parents to show them right from wrong, but as they reach the age of 17 it's time they make there own rules on what they should or should not do. Now a days the goverment is trying to control our lives with tell us what we can or can not due.