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I don’t know if this is tangential or completely related to this article, but at some point I realized the greatest thing I could have was the freedom to change
by dclowd9901 6y ago
I don’t know if this is tangential or completely related to this article, but at some point I realized the greatest thing I could have was the freedom to change everything about my life at any given moment. I realized that unless I had that freedom, I was never really free. Now, every choice I make is colored by question: if I make this choice, what choices do I lose? How can I make a choice that keeps me from losing any choices.
The unexpected side benefit of this is that if I’m ever in doubt of what I’m doing with my life, I am free to consider changing things, and if I don’t, then I know that I am doing exactly what I want to do. It’s a way to contentment that is almost objective.
- konschubert 6y agoI don’t know. I’ve found it very liberating to commit to choices.
- cbanek 6y agoI really sympathize with this and feel this way too although sometimes I feel paralyzed by too much choice, and that can make it harder to make "big" decisions, like buying a house, etc.
- Ruphin 6y agoBy limiting yourself to choices that do not cause loss of choice in the future, are you still free to choose anything? You value this freedom so much that you limit the choices you can make significantly only to retain this freedom, but unless you "cash in" that freedom at some point to make a choice without restrictions (which will probably limit your freedom of choice in the future) you are living with a limited choice-space just the same.