CONTROL

dear nonny mouse
thank you for your kind offer
but i have a confession to make
for when i told you i receive five readies
every time a reader leaves a comment
i was just joshing
nah!
blogging royalties remain a distant dream
unless anyone fancies making a small donation
in which case
offers to my comments box please!
until that time
i blog for free
i post for nothing
i seek no financial remuneration
i blog for the love of blogging
for the interactivity the medium allows
for the creativity it fosters
for the buzz of occasionally resonating
with one of you dear readers
[ed: if ya throw enough mud
some of it will stick!]
alighting like a butterfly
on that word or phrase
that metaphor or rhyming couplet
that makes you chuckle
intrigues you
adds something to your day
or gets you thru the night
'the effect of the communication
is the response you get'
so say the neurolinguistic programmers
nlp places the onus on the writer or speaker
to adjust the massage
till the audience responds in the way intended
in other words
nlp cultivates acuity
to nonny mouse
and perhaps you
i unwittingly come across as dissatisfied
freaked by a world out of my control
this is not the massage i wish to convey
but perhaps a trait in myself that i need to analyse
the desire to be in control
to exercise power
to attain mastery
to assert dominance
to hold influenza

the search for importance

permanence
omnipotence

stoking delusions of grandeur

destined to end in frustration and disappointment

born out of fear
humankind's evolution tells the tale of control
from stone age cave dweller
to modern denizen of real and virtual worlds
learning first to live in harmony with nature
red in tooth and claw
then later attempting to transcend it
until it bites back
our friend nonny mouse is right
when (s)he tells us to let go
to revel in the mess
to cherish and marvel at the untamable
the uncontrollable unpredictability
of the vast
writhing
undulating
cosmos