Freedom and Happiness are concepts that confuse many people. Very often, they are thought of as destinations to be reached, or goals to be achieved. But they are neither.
Freedom and Happiness are better thought of as directions on a compass. You can no more reach ‘Happiness’ as a destination than you can reach West as a destination, but as long as you keep moving, you make progress. They are guiding principles that we should use to direct our decisions, our actions and our behaviors continuously in our daily lives.
We often confuse the feeling of gratification with happiness, and social or societal liberty with psychological freedom. Whenever we find ourselves faced with truly difficult decisions, we can probably trace the root of the difficulty to a tug of war between these concepts. Take time to think about what is really important and what you really want to achieve, and the choice will often become obvious.
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