No, I am not free, because the bills have to be paid! Remember the rule: There is no free lunch. So freedom is a different kind of subject, one that involves individual thought and desires. Who do you want to be? How do you want to live? What do you like to do?

We are unique and separate from all others. No one can crawl inside you and know you, just as you will never really know another. We fall in love and bond, marry and get used to each other. Someone wrote that a couple who has been together for a decade grows closer because each one adapts to the other’s ways, thus, they become one. I can disagree with that for my own personal experience, but that’s another tale. In truth, a couple must share with each other all aspects of who they are, what they want, and how they live. Agreeing on decisions for long term goals and working together toward them will create a relationship that is rock solid. The basis of this premise depends on communications.

This is the freedom: discover who you are, then choose what you want to change and commit to changing it! As you are the only one in charge of your desires and decisions about what you like and dislike, you are responsible for your personality, your health, your social life, your career, your finances, and politics. YOU make those choices and become who you want to be. Just remember that it’s easier to slide backwards than to get ahead, because the nature of man began in the Garden of Eden where everything was chillin’! In our era we must work hard to maintain status quo, but that includes reaching the goals.