freedom of choice [Theme]

- It is human nature to ask questions that cannot be answered. The day will come when I won't be around. You will have to defend yourself, make your own choices... Decide who you are, who you want to become. This world doesn't like those who aren't like everyone else, Marcus. Don't let anyone tell you who you are.

There are many roads, but only one choice.

But if this does not happen, if you are "unlucky", and you will be approved and appreciated, then ... you yourself will have to make a conscious choice: freedom or dependence, you will be forced to decide: universal respect or loneliness; you're trapped between "being what you're supposed to be" or "being nothing to anyone". And from now on ... you can be, but only lonely and only for yourself.

... this is the choice of a person: a temple or a restaurant, go for a drink or pray. It's like here already, in Optina, the buses are coming. You meet. Hello,

Reiner: Looks like... My hypothesis was confirmed.

There is another aspect of the need for freedom and autonomy. Other things being equal, when faced with information that contradicts their beliefs, people seek, if possible, to find counterarguments. In this way they can keep their own opinions from being over-influenced by others and protect their own sense of autonomy.

The freedom of choice became so great that it gradually turned into coercion.

- If you wanted to leave, why should I be angry with you?

The quality of our life is determined by how we relate to realities, what meaning we attribute to them, how we relate to them, what state of mind they create for us.

I never had any plans to go to university. Although everyone kept telling me: you have to do it, because nowadays everyone does it. This is absolute nonsense. And I knew that.

The puppet is free as long as it loves the threads by which it is pulled. You are not in control of the storm, but you are not lost in it, you are the storm. The question is, why is this all?

You know, now is not the time.
You know, it's not the place right now.
Let's wait some more
And then - we will live.
All systems will collapse,
Sad news will disappear.
Probably, we will live,
And no, so be it.
In the meantime, for now.
Desperately fold our paws,
Wash your hands faster -
It's not our business.
And sweetly play in the box,
Having postponed myself until tomorrow,
Forgetting from vanity and boredom,
That Life Is Given
just one.

- Dad, can I ask you?
- Sure.
- Do you miss the band?
- Where do these questions come from?
You always say you left the band to be a good father. But you were a great father when you played in the band. There was no need to sacrifice his favorite thing for us.
- Sunshine, I didn't sacrifice anything. It's just that I survived this adventure. And it was time to start a new adventure, with you. Sometimes you make a choice, and sometimes your choice makes you.

The wind of freedom blows only into the raised sails.