Somewhat misguided.

The things we do during any given day can often seem like a bit of an accident sometimes. Good, bad, and anywhere in between, our circumstances can seem like the occur almost entirely independent of our own personal input. This is, however, something I am coming to think of as a more and more incorrect idea.

Certainly we can not control most of the elements which comprise the daily experience. We can control our attitudes, and sometimes do a decent job of that, but we also can control our behavioral reactions to the challenges placed before us almost independent of attitude. Just doing what needs to be done, so to speak, sort of like a shift at work on the daily grind.

I wonder how much our trials really come from external sources? I tend to think more and more that if a number could somehow quantify this idea accurately it would be a much smaller number than I would expect.