You set your alarm in the morning to play a tune or make a noise that is guaranteed to wake you. You force yourself out of bed and into the daytime world to perform whatever tasks you've planned or are required of you and then at the end of the day, you sink back into the oblivion of sleep. Sometimes there are blissful breaks in the pattern where awakening is not determined by a dreaded alarm sound. The mornings where we don't need to be in a certain place at a certain time are the incredibly desirable ones where getting out of bed is simply whenever we feel like it. Sadly these are the ones though when someone will call to the door or the neighbours will decide to play blaring rave music at 10am.
In a fleeting way, a certain question has crossed my mind more than once lately- that being, how much control do we really have over our own lives? It's one of those considerations that could very easily become an obsession and so I'm choosing to only skim the surface. Things happen in life and people will inevitably respond with phrases like 'Oh, it wasn't meant to be', and 'everything happens for a reason' and 'what's for you won't pass you'.
Ambition and the drive to work towards goals are such attractive qualities for me in a person. The desire to become and achieve and gain and make the most of life is a wonderful one. Hard work and awareness and dedication give us the best chance possible of fulfilling those dreams. However, the fact remains that one never knows what's around the corner, whether as a direct resut of our own actions or completely randomly. On one hand, we create our own fates; we have free will and the choice to follow whichever direction we choose in life, rightly or wrongly. On the other, circumstances and the unpredictibility of life get in the way more often than not. Sometimes, they pose simply as obstacles to be overcome, things to prove that life never runs smoothly. Learning from experience and becoming stronger obviously adds to us as people and so we can sometimes look back at those annoying and unexpected obstacles and see the good in them. Some other times however, for whatever reason, life comes up with solid brick walls that are unbreakable and so the course of our plans and dreams has to radically change and these ambitions may never be realised. No more than the cow is in charge of her own fate, we can't control many things in our lives like the onset of some illnesses or how people feel about us or actions other people make. We simply have to do our utmost to live every moment to the full and srtive to make the most of life and to love as much as possible with hope firmly rooted inside us.
When the irritating, dreaded noise of the alarm goes off in the mornings, there is a long and wonderful day of possibilities ahead, some planned and some surprises. Bedtime will come round soon enough again and we will be no closer to answering the question on how much control we have over our own lives but the good comes with the bad, and the unknown, though a little bit scary, can be a really exciting prospect. We may not be fully in control but we're in a far better position than the cows in the fields. Make the most of it*
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