Freedoms We Miss (Or So We Think...)
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“I remember perfectly well what life was like before (having my own kids). Well enough to miss some things a lot, like the ability to take off for some other country at a moment's notice. That was so great. Why did I never do that?
See what I did there? The fact is, most of the freedom I had before kids, I never used. I paid for it in loneliness, but I never used it.” - Paul Graham
Most of the time, it’s all in our heads. Mainly because we think the grass is always greener elsewhere. Mainly because we tend to want what we can no longer have.
Because when we can no longer have something, we begin to value it differently. Not the way we did when we actually had access to it, but enough to make it seem more than it ever really was. Even when it wasn’t all that.
And if it actually was, well, then there’s nothing we can do about it. But we can learn from it: best not lose sight of what we can do now, and actually do it.
*H/T to Tim Ferriss for the Paul Graham quote.
