Worth the Wild

If your life is like mine, it is about ongoing battles for control. I’m bearing witness to several of these in nearly every part of my life right now. And, heck, I’m participating in some.

Battles for control invite drama, interpersonal conflict, discomfort, and even hurt. And yet they’re sometimes necessary.

I’d like to suggest a moral difference between the ways in which we fight these fights.

• There is fighting to control others (unhealthy)

• And there is fighting to be uncontrolled by others (mostly healthy)

This is not a commentary on obedience. It is not an apology for people who are rebellious out of spite. It is not a defense of the narcissistic. It is simply a statement that the urge to resist control is part of a wild, adventuresome life.

I believe such a life is what we are called to live. Such a life is what makes us different, human, soulful, and fully alive.

In the battles for control you’re apart of, see what happens when you filter between people who are fighting for control and those who are fighting to be uncontrolled. Seek new allies.