I am in control.

We are a hypocritic race. We know that given the chance and liberty we would go ahead and do the unthinkable. We might rob others, slit others throats, streak around in the open or maybe defecate all around. That is why we need governments, the police, the bureaucracy just to keep us sane and with limits of the minimum moral behaviour. We humans spend a lot of our hard earned money as taxes which are nothing but the fuel to run the governments in place. Besides, we spend even more money and time in electing these governing bodies time and time again. Do we accept all their proposals? Nah. We are more than often unhappy with their workings and so you would see a million public interest litigations slapped on their very own governing bodies. In short, we pay so that someone's is always there to spank us if our minds start doing the thing called "thinking" but at the same time we are not happy with their job. We want to be spanked more and harder.
God gave us the mind but it leads us astray. God have us the heart but it is involved in a constant turmoil with the brain. The most evolved creature to ever tread on Earth is just a piece of meat and bones who if left to his own wits, would go back on four legs faster than one can fathom. We are a confused entity. We have no purpose nor an identity. Still we like it when someone tells us that we are in control of our lives. The reality is that we dont even know what the word control means. Human beings are beyond their own control. They cannot resist the urges within their bodies and moreso in their minds. So, they have devised the philosophies of psychology and meditation inorder to give themselves a psuedo-satisfaction of being in charge. But the reality is that they are as much in control of their own emotions, feelings and desires as they are in control of the earths rotation or the expansion of the universe.