To me, there are three key approaches that I constantly invoke when I feel out at sea but have a craving for stepping firmly back onto land -- essentially, taking command of my life -- and they apply to so many areas of everyday life.
Nevertheless, I do not want to be the type of person who would let drugs or alcohol take command of his life and compromise how he treats people.
However, some participants countered this sense of futility, portraying diabetes instead as an entity to be controlled, and persevered with attempts to control their diet, blood glucose and blood pressure, to "feel more in command of their life" [3B17].
Without nostalgia and without sentimentality, this seventy-three-year-old filmmaker looks to the heart of his own inspiration, his own impulses, and creates a cinema that, with the creative command of his own life experience, feels more exuberantly youthful than that of most Sundance phenoms.
Or maybe you just want to take command of your social life in general -- so you can be more confident, engaging, and on fire.
But in Salinger's interview (which you can see on YouTube), one encounters an articulate, reflective 52-year-old woman in command of her complex life and, at that point, renowned for causes she had championed for Monaco and its citizens.
In "Fantastic Voyage," she writes, tartly and honestly, that she is deeply envious of her husband's organized mind, his promptly scheduled medical exams and command over the minutiae of life she can never seem to control.
In a biopolitical regime (i.e., in a regime where power of command, life, production, affects and communication are intertwined and meshed as in a maze), jumps are difficult if not impossible -- in the old politics, things were like this, too, and when there were jumps, sometimes heroic, it was almost always necessary to retreat, covering in cunning institutions a terrain too hastily crossed.
