The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
I never really thought about being a director. I just wanted to be an actor. But as I got older, I realized that I wanted to have more control over the films I was in.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and deeper than our latest theory about it.