I know how to control a machine, but how do we control ourselves? How do we bridle back our actions and emotions? Throttle down? Control our anger? Invoke self-discipline? Govern ourselves properly? Stay on the straight and narrow? Meditate and pray? Diet and exercise? Not cross the line? Not ask for a phone number?
Good questions, but ones with no apparent answer... if we read the paper or examine ourselves for flaws and urges.
A lot has been said lately on this subject with the recent demise of Cosmo’s publisher, and comparisons to Playboy. Both of these magazines are the antithesis of self-control, with their prime axioms being seduction philosophy and lack of inhibition. Sex sells, but it also brought plenty of drama and misery in this battle of the sexes, and produced plenty of casualties.
I still get temptation... like yesterday... but put me down for diet and exercise and hold the drama.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, amen.
- © 2012 by Willy
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