What do you have more in your life? Responsibility or freedom? What is currently closest to your reality?

Are you a person who gets up at 6, leaves home at 7, rushes for coffee, drives to work, works 9-5, comes home, neglects to spend a lot of time with family, does some errands do you watch any tv? , then goes to bed at 12…?

Or are you more of a person who wakes up past noon, forgets to eat breakfast, turns on the TV, then calls a few friends on the phone, then goes online, eats something like the main food supply for the whole day? Do you watch more TV and use the Internet before falling asleep at 3 AM?

The first person has too much responsibility on their hands, while the other person has too much freedom on their hands. One has to worry about staying alert, competitive, and ahead of their business, while the other worries about what to do in the next hour. The key is that these things go hand in hand. The more responsibility one has, the less freedom one has. The more freedom you have, the less responsibility you have. And you know what? Both lead to miserable lives.

If you have too much responsibility, you will not have the freedom to enjoy the pleasures of life. Everything you do will be work, work and more work causing unhealthy stress; all while time will pass unknowingly.

If you have too much freedom, you will become lazy and bored. You won’t know what to do next and you won’t have goals in life to motivate you, which will also cause you stress and waste of time.

If you want more freedom, you must take responsibility for your life. You can’t just complain that you don’t have enough freedom because you’re somehow locked in the same house as your parents, who never stop nagging you because you don’t have a job. You can’t complain if you have a teacher who doesn’t speak English well and blame him for your poor test grades. You can’t complain if you’re single, depressed, lonely and wishing someone would come to your door and pull you out of your feelings. If you want more freedom, you must take responsibility for your own life!

If you find that the more your responsibility is balanced with your freedom, it is a sign of a person who is taking charge of their life and earning their freedom.

Absolute freedom, however, does not account for a happy life either. Some people who are rich in the world still don’t spend their money wisely because they let their freedom take over their life, while they forget about responsibility. They are back in debt or even bankrupt. Many famous celebrities have gone down this unfortunate route.

A personal example of this is in high school, I got up at 7 every day and had class at 8, I ate lunch at the same time and classes lasted until 2:30. Then, being on a sports team like basketball, tennis, and cross country, I often didn’t get home before 4 or 5 in the afternoon. When I got home, I watched about an hour of TV, ate dinner, did homework, went to bed at 11, and woke up the next day at 7. This was the typical monotonous but disciplined lifestyle of a high school student. . .

The summer before college, I was scared and anxious as it was my first time leaving my parents’ house, experiencing what it would be like to have true “freedom.” During the first year, I had random classes, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, the classes were every other day and never lasted more than 4 hours in total per day, I ate what I wanted and I usually went to sleep I pass by I spend midnight chatting with my roommates or staying on the computer. I was the absolute freedom I finally thought! But my GPA sank to an all-time low!

Although I had a lot more freedom in college, I didn’t balance it with the responsibility required, so my grades suffered dramatically and it was a while before I had to maintain better work habits to get back up. However, I enjoyed college a lot more as high school always put you in your shoes and really limited you from experiencing life which, for the first time, really tested your ability to be responsible.

Whether your scenario is academic, social, work, or a life where you lie down doing nothing, it’s important to balance freedom and responsibility. To gain more freedom, you must be responsible for your actions instead of complaining, worrying, or blaming others. Everything depends on you. If you have too much freedom, be it time freedom or money freedom, be responsible with it too, as you may see yourself losing some or all of it in the near future or in the blink of an eye.