So you think I’m addicted to control.

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Yes.

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Because you think everyone is.

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I do.

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And why is that?

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Because we’re unsatisfiable.

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We carry this picture in our heads of the reality we want…

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…which we constantly compare to the reality we have.

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And when the two don’t match — which is most of the time — 

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…we try to change the reality we have.

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Which means most of the time we’re fighting reality.

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Which is a fight we can’t win.

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And that’s “controlling”?

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Well, that’s what I call it.

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Buddhists call it attachment.

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So I’m unhappy because I fight reality…

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…instead of learning to live with it.  Right.

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Well…

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…I think that’s crap.

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I think your theory is New Age bullshit.

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And I think I’m in therapy with the wrong therapist.

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See?

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There you go again.

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