Month: April 2016

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.”
—Mahatma Gandhi

What have you gained through having the freedom to mess up?

Wild horses aren’t, properly speaking, wild. They are feral animals, once domesticated, but now living free in nature. It turns out that for both horses and humans there are benefits and down sides to living a domesticated life.

In what way do you wish your life were more wild?

The saying goes that everyone is free to their own opinion, but not to their own facts. The modern world of social media makes it easy to share and debate opinions. It also makes it easy to share “facts” that simply have no basis in reality.

When have you allowed your opinions to lead you astray from researching the facts?

“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle, and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
—Alice Walker

What freedoms have you gained through facing down your fears?

You might think that staying focused on yourself would be a good route to freedom, but it turns out that if you are locked to yourself, your options become severely limited.

How have you found freedom by looking beyond yourself?