Monday, July 28, 2008

Freedom and Responsibility

We all crave freedom in one form or another. It may be financial freedom, or social freedom, or political freedom, or simply the freedom to enjoy our lives. All of these kinds of freedoms are, of course, valid and worthwhile.

However, there is an aspect to freedom that many people don't understand until, surprisingly, they have the very freedom that they've craved in their hands. It's this:

The other side of freedom is responsibility.

This is very...hard to accept on a "logical" basis, because we tend to believe that by "achieving freedom," we'll be able to avoid responsibility.

However, responsibility is intrinsic to freedom. To be FREE means to be RESPONSIBLE.

Yes, it may not mean responsibility to specific things; for example, if you currently work in a challenging, unrewarding, uninspiring job and you suddenly find yourself in a financial position so you don't have to do that job anymore, you're right: you won't have the "responsibility" of that particular job.

But in a larger sense, you will have a greater responsibility; that of managing and ethically spending your money (by ethical, I mean simply spending it in accordance with the laws that you have come to understand are at work in the world, including but not limited to, The Law of Attraction).

So when you crave freedom in your life, prepare yourself for responsibility.

To whom more is given, more is expected.

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