Limits

If in life there are things that are up to us and things that are not up to us, what makes a person think he has control over another person’s life? Since the beginning of time people have chosen to believe that they have a special don to control life. Take slavery for example, the slave owners thought that they were in conditions of taking over another human being life. They had it under control but what they didn’t seem to grasp is that the small control one has over life, has it under his life, and only his life no one else’s. As said by Epictetus but with another example:

“You are foolish if you want your children and your wife and friends to live forever, since you are wanting things to be up to you that are not up to you, and things to be yours that are not yours. [. . .] but wanting not to fail to get what you desire-this you are capable of.” (15.14)

People have to understand there are limits in which, if they pass they become Gods, something they are not meant to be, (even though they think they should) because they lack wisdom and tolerance, and above all they do not and are not capable of understanding the meaning of life. Human beings need to understand that there is a line they cannot cross, and as long as they try to God, or the universe if you don’t believe in him, will teach each and every one of them a lesson. Eventually they will come to understand their limits and place on earth.