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Mirror 68 · The World

Freedom

Freedom is not the absence of constraints. It is the choice of which constraints to accept — and the awareness that every choice to do one thing is a choice not to do a thousand others.

The sailor had spent three hundred days alone at sea. Her name was Amara, and she had set out from San Francisco to circumnavigate the globe, solo, nonstop, unassisted. She had crossed the Southern Ocean, rounded Cape Horn, and survived storms that had broken ships larger than hers. The journalist ...

Reflection question

What would change in your life if you truly believed this?

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