Who is in control?

I was thinking how is it that we always feel the need to be in control? Before challenging this idea, let’s consider the following.

Here and now

Two most fundamental ideas, almost as powerfully as religion. They’ve always been around, the simplest concepts any sentient being understands with whatever brain power claim to have.

In this ambience of concepts, when we are threatened by either here or now, we tend to go either in the past or future, for refuge or control seeking behavior. Some say, there is no point in thinking of a past that existed and could have been now. Because it’s not now, it’s in the past.

And then, there is now. This very moment, nothing mystical about it, very simple and straight forward. But from now, arises a sense of intelligence, because we are constantly acting with the reality, one by one; something happens and we’re there to experience it, almost instantly with fantastic precision.

What do we seek when we feel threatened? Do we seek solitude? Understanding? Nothing? Something?