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I don't feel much existential angst about freedom. I think that I am about as free as I choose to be. Freedom is always about choices. Choices and trade-offs. No woman is an island, so of course I have responsibilities. I deal with them... responsibly.
Responsibility is not the lack of freedom, but it is (for me) the price of freedom. Delaying gratification is not a lack of freedom. Planning for the future is not a lack of freedom, it is an enhancement of freedom. Discipline does not preclude freedom, and freedom does not preclude discipline.
In other words, freedom does not mean that I should be able to have my cake and eat it too.
I make plenty of money (I paid my poverty dues in the past) but live modestly well below my means.
I've never lived in another country, but I see extraordinary freedom in the USA.
I can get in my old car and drive halfway across the country (or all the way, for that matter) without asking permission of any authority. I can take a job anywhere, subject to my abilities.
Oops! Out of time. Must go take care of one of those "responsibilities."
Lindy
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