“Being free isn’t actually that easy.” ~Unknown I’ve always been an achiever. I’ve worked hard to reach goals: I was good at school, then got a good job, and ended up making good money.
My colleagues valued my clear view of the goal, my ability to break down the big task into parts that one can work on, casting it all as individual problems that one can solve.
I was diligent, hard-working, and reliable. An employer’s dream employee. At the same time, I’ve always had a wish to be “free.” Not so much from outer constraints, but from inner ones—depressive episodes, difficult feelings, painful experiences.
It sounds terribly naive when you put it like that, but I guess it was a wish to live “happily ever after” at some point in the future.
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