"Controlling" Others Troubles Us

…it’s our struggle to control the “hims and hers” in our lives that keeps us focused on the other person even when that person isn’t present. The obsession to control gets in the way of our sanity and serenity. We miss living our own lives when we obsessively focus on how the significant people in our lives are living theirs. ~ Casey, Karen. A Life of My Own: Meditations on Hope and Acceptance (Hazelden Meditations Book 1). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Do you disagree with others in your household
about how things should be done?
Do you fume over what they would say if they were present?
Do you roil about what Mother would tell you
fifty years after you left home?
Do you respond to to your Daddy’s truism
when he’s been gone for decades?
Do you find keeping sanity and serenity
hard to grasp because
you’re in a conversation within your head?
Let’s try today living our own lives
instead of obsessively focusing
on how the significant people
in our lives are living theirs!