When we think about loss of freedom, we seldom focus on
the ways in which we voluntarily impose constraints upon our
lives. Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled
dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could
become. Usually it is fear and its close cousin, anxiety, that
keep us from doing those things that would make us happy.
So much of our lives consists of broken promises to ourselves.
The things we long to do - educate ourselves, become
successful in our work, fall in love - are goals shared by all.
Nor are the means to achieve these things obscure. And yet
we often do not do what is necessary to become the people
we want to be.
-Gordon Livingston, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
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