I consider freedom as the chance to choose how to use our time, but in my personal opinion it doesn't mean that every single day we should decide if doing something or not almost by chance - but that we have the power to, if there's a real will.
Defining a goal means you should follow a path in order to reach it, and the freedom to choose that path means you are taking time you would have used for something different, otherwise.
So, we could find ourselves with no purpose like Peter Pan, or just "never making it" - or doing what needs to be done to get where we want.
When I realized my path was not going into the direction I really wanted - not anymore, at least -, no matter what, I made a big change a very few people would have done in my place. That was freedom to me.
Living in Costa Rica, surfing almost every day, doesn't mean I do not get to work, but that when I'm not dedicating to my projects or my clients, I'm in the most beautiful place on Earth - and exactly where I want to be.
We can't make a project pass from an idea to reality without dedicating part of our time.
We can't have a family without comproming to the relationships with our partner or children.
We just can't have everything at the same time because every single day we need to make "decisions" - word that derives from the Latin decīdĕre, composed of the prefix de- (which indicates removal, deprivation or strengthening) and the verb caedĕre (to cut, to sever).
So, deciding means we choose to give up something in order to get something else, and this is why - for me - it can't be a rule not to ever sacrifying a "dimension of freedom" for another one, because that would mean not to take decisions anymore, or at least most of the times.
It could mean living just by instinct, I guess, but even in the jungle could be hard to pursue.
I consider freedom as the chance to choose how to use our time, but in my personal opinion it doesn't mean that every single day we should decide if doing something or not almost by chance - but that we have the power to, if there's a real will.
Defining a goal means you should follow a path in order to reach it, and the freedom to choose that path means you are taking time you would have used for something different, otherwise.
So, we could find ourselves with no purpose like Peter Pan, or just "never making it" - or doing what needs to be done to get where we want.
When I realized my path was not going into the direction I really wanted - not anymore, at least -, no matter what, I made a big change a very few people would have done in my place. That was freedom to me.
Living in Costa Rica, surfing almost every day, doesn't mean I do not get to work, but that when I'm not dedicating to my projects or my clients, I'm in the most beautiful place on Earth - and exactly where I want to be.
We can't make a project pass from an idea to reality without dedicating part of our time.
We can't have a family without comproming to the relationships with our partner or children.
We just can't have everything at the same time because every single day we need to make "decisions" - word that derives from the Latin decīdĕre, composed of the prefix de- (which indicates removal, deprivation or strengthening) and the verb caedĕre (to cut, to sever).
So, deciding means we choose to give up something in order to get something else, and this is why - for me - it can't be a rule not to ever sacrifying a "dimension of freedom" for another one, because that would mean not to take decisions anymore, or at least most of the times.
It could mean living just by instinct, I guess, but even in the jungle could be hard to pursue.