Control to 'improve'?

Control in any form does not contribute to improvement by itself. Control is a kind of limitation, a restriction, looking at it one way or other.
Self control, and self improvement, is a popular concept.
I was wondering if my answer would find any appeal at all! Right from my childhood, I had been holding myself out of reach on any kind of control. We try to control something which is likely to ‘go out of control’. Why at all go out of control was my way of looking at it. The outside situation has always been beyond our control, not just ‘out of our control’. So now, the mind says, control the self… if nothing else comes under our control. This is how we tend to drive ourselves crazy and towards frustration! Once we decide to blend with the situation, choosing to do what is appropriate, then, the concept of ‘control’ itself would become redundant! I would suggest ‘regulate’ as a milder form instead, if at all needed. Children naturally repel any attempt to control them in any manner. And when they grow up, it is their turn to control us now. But they take pity now-a-days, and dispose us unto old age homes, instead (please rot there, no point in trying to control a stale vegetable!).

Please see if the answer affords a little relaxation of the controls we inflict upon ourselves and others.
(The question is about reaching the ultimate freedom but through some kind of control! How am I to subscribe to it?)
Regards,
Psn(9th Dec., 2009)

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http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AguAxsQ0fmefZfZeDYiatpuQHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20091113131214AA3vh7m
The (wonderful) question:
Does self control and self improvement lead to enlightenment?
Should I renounce the world as an illusion or are our very bodies and minds the site of enlightenment?
My answer:
Oh! Mere 'self'' realisation would be enough!Only that, to realise the self, perhaps, all that circus is needed, that self-control, self-improvement, etc!The "child-like" innocent get it just-like-that! They have nothing astray to control, or improve upon!Statistics give evidence! The bulk majority of those who 'made it' happen to be mostly unlettered ones!