Control freak? Me??
I joke about it occasionally, but I don’t really believe that I’m a control freak.
This came up last week when I was at my visit with Dr. Bekker (my homeopath). After thinking about it for awhile, while he was looking things up in his book, I finally decided that it’s not true. It’s not that I feel a need to control things: it’s more that I feel that since I am in control of most things that happen to me, at least to some extent, if I’m feeling that I have no control over something, then I must be looking at it wrong. And because I’m a perfectionist, that means that I usually obsess over whatever it is until I find some aspect of it that is under my control.
Does that make sense?
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Us.
Comments: 3
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Comment from Aruni
Time: August 22, 2007, 12:39 pm
Makes sense to me!
Comment from texsgirl
Time: August 24, 2007, 7:49 pm
Thanks, Aruni! : )
Comment from Clint
Time: August 26, 2007, 11:53 pm
Lies, lies, it’s all lies! Of course she’s a control freak. Well, not a freak, per se. But she does like to be in control, because she usually has a very clear idea of how any particular thing should be done, and if it’s not that way, well could you please just step aside and let her do it, because it’s clearly not the best way. Very fortunately, she and I have similar ideas about how things should be, and very fortunately, when we don’t, I’m fine with however she wants to do something, since I’m sure I’ll find it accommodating. Some small percentage of the time, however, we have clear, contrary opinions on how something should be, and that usually leads to a fairly earnest discussion. Interestingly, as it seems they’d stick out in my mind for their rarity, I can’t think of any such times, except on political subjects, that such differences have come up. They tend to distress Carole quite a bit when they do, since she always feels like she’s just not explaining herself well enough, because surely if I understood it I’d come around to her view. She has a harder time with the idea that we might just have a different view of something than I do. “But our brains are clones, remember?!”
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