To not have Control is Control

At times we think we have control over everything around us and at times we know that we cannot control everything. Is it because we know that we cannot control everything that our human nature try’s to anyways? Or is it just us not wanting to face reality of know there is nothing in this world we can control over all.

In Donnna Masini poem “Slowly” there is a hungry snake and a rabbit, the rabbit is put into the glass case with the snake. Other than fighting for its life it just sits there calm and stiff and just let the snake prey over it. Once the snake is ready it just bites into the rabbit neck and swallow it whole. The rabbit still did not move as it seen its fate coming right before its eyes.

In my perspective I believed the rabbit knew it could not do anything to get out the cage and whether it fought for its life or not the snake would have won. So it decided not to fight because its fate was already chosen for it. I believe this poem shows us that we do not always have control over what happen to us. Depending on what the circumstances are, sometimes we know that so we choose not to fight it we just accept it.

In Thomas Lux poem “To help a money cross the river” there is a monkey that has to cross a river to get some food so it can continue on living, there is a person that is in a tree (or on higher ground) that see the monkey…along with two animals that is preying on the monkey. But, the monkey does not see the two predators so it does not know that it is in danger. As the monkey starts to cross the river the person on higher ground keep watch to make sure the monkey is safe from all predators. When he sees the predators getting ready to approach the monkey he shoots behind the monkey so it can move faster across the bank. The monkey did not know that it was in danger, not by the person that we shooting behind it but in danger because it had predators ready to eat it.

In my opinion this poem is saying we do not always know what is going to happen because we are not always aware of what’s around up so that means we don’t have control over things. The monkey did not see its predators, so it did not have any fear, but because someone was looking out for the monkey it lived giving it another moment in time.

These two poems are similar because they teach the same thing; we do not have control over everything we do. In certain situations we do not know what is around us so we choose to make a decision because it is in our nature and if something out of the ordinary happens we tend to fight or make a change because we know there is a possible better outcome. Whereas, with other situations when we know it will not get any better we just take it as it is and let whatever happen happens. Which shows we do not have any control over what happens.