We can control our own lives to a certain extent, but other people interact and influence our lives too... and we can't control other people.

Yes you can control lots of lots of things through your mind, it reminds me a verse of a song " Though his body says stop, his spirit cries never" it is the mind which cries never. And sometime you can control other people like for example through hypnotism, Telepathy is another way of communication between people far away from each other through mind yet mind to has some limitations for example if you are falling from a mountain or a building or a plane is crashing you cannot ask your mind to stop it:))

we can control manytings but it has a limit also God create something and some events so we call this as our destiny

All are in our hands (I mean our life) but at the same time there are things in our life which we can't control: aging, death, bad weather, nature cataclysms and so on....)))

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