A Whole Cast of Charactors

              Introducing the characters:   Control, Powerlessness,Victim, Action and Reaction


Here is control. It is the other side of powerlessness  I am told.   I am  powerless over everything, including the other guy, so the other guy should be powerless over me too.   Right?   But, in my opinion, this is only true if the other guy agrees that he or she is powerless over me.  This may or may not be true.  Perhaps because I allow the other guy to make me feel lousy he or she does have power over me.  That sounds right, but how does that make me controlling?  It's still controlling, I suppose, to only want the other guy to leave me alone. It's still trying to force my will on someone.  But it sure feels like other guy is the one doing the controlling.

Maybe the Victim comes to play in here.  A victim controls by making the other guy feel as if he or she has power over me, there by giving the other guy permission to continue his or hers behavior.  Kind of a sneaky form of control, but control none-the-less.

Now I see Action versus Reactions coming in,  These are interesting little creatures.  The other guy acts, then I react, then what does the other guy do after noting my reaction?  Does he or she react to my reaction?  And then, do I, in turn, react to his or her reaction? Which one is reacting?  Which came first the chicken or the egg?  If I tripped over a pile of dirt would I be acting or reacting to its natural state of lying there in the way?  I assume that the pile of dirt is not going to react to my tripping over it, since it is an inanimate object.  The other guy, however, is not an  inanimate object and can react therefore to my reaction.

All this being said, you can clearly conclude that I an undoubtedly insane.

I could now bring out another character--Insanity.  But I am tired and will leave him for another time.