When things are out of your control

🔥

Pondering this yesterday when I was basically trapped for 4 hours.

I was in a situation where I was asked to help, told to wait, and wait, and wait, all for their benefit. Finally they told me I could leave. "The owner said you may leave now" Like the King had released me of my court jester role.

I went through, ok I'll be patient and wait, to impatient, to ok now we are moving, to waiting, to now being angry, to putting down my ultimatum, to then being invited in, to then seeing the disaster they were dealing with and why I was asked to wait, watching 20 people have a conversation that no one would solve.

At some point just giving up on wanting to do things my way and just going with the flow. Lets say that took hours based on how I was being moved around. That giving up released the tensions and allowed me to re-adjust my day.

I see any moment in life to be a time to practice and inquire deeper into the situation. Sometimes it is easy, sometimes it is more challenging like this siutation that is mostly out of my control and I was being left in the dark.

What’s your go-to when things feel out of control?

13 comments