People can hide from life, just like quiet quitters in the workplace.

People can enter into commitments that make future decisions for them, so that they don’t have to make those decisions themselves from the astounding, beautiful, and confusing array of options that our Creator provides us every day.

I realized this morning that a former friend didn’t choose freedom: he gave up choice via debt (with limited ROI and no cash flow).

The debt will determine what he can and cannot do, and what his energy must be spent on.

To this, he added children. Not to do his best and give more love to more people. Not to experience the joy & fear that non-parents cannot understand. Not because raising children is the highest spiritual calling and our best shot at making a better world.

Again, so that he had less choices to make in the future, and so that he could hide from the burden of freedom.