About Your Inalienable Rights

Striving for your fulfillment and potential is what life is all about

Why do people need autonomy and freedom?

Because you know what you want to do with who you are and the same is true for me.

“They had so much potential, it’s too bad they didn’t reach it.” Sometimes that statement is true. Often, it’s just judgment.

I used to judge my brother-in-law. He has so many natural talents and abilities in certain areas of life. It used to irritate the hell out of me that he wasn’t interested in advancing himself in those areas.

But the ways he’d learned to use those particular natural talents and abilities weren’t where his interests laid. Pursuing them didn’t make him happy or further him in his motivating goals. So, more than 20 years later his life path doesn’t look anything like I’d imagined.

But who the fuck am I?

Why do I get to imagine what his life could or should look like?

As I’ve grown, I’ve learned that lesson: Live and let live.

I don’t waste my precious time and energy fretting over what other people could or should be anymore.

He’s happy. He’s fulfilled. His paths have taken him to interesting places and…