Letter: Choose your groove

From Alan Worsley

Dorothy Rowe argues against the view that we have no control over our psychological destinies (5 February, p 21). This reminded me of a limerick: There was a young man who said, “Damn! I now understand that I am A being that moves In predestinate grooves, Not a car, not a bus, but a tram.”

Remembering the control advantage of conscious planning, I have come up with a reply:

The young fellow then thought, “No, It is not necessarily so, The argument fails, I can lay my own rails And go where I want to go.”

So don’t be browbeaten by naive pessimists.

Hull, Yorkshire, UK