If you ask a thousand people what freedom means to them, you will most likely get a thousand slightly different answers.

Then there’s the next step, which is one of the pressing questions I ask in my moral philosophy course, “Are we really free?”

I doubt we’ll ever get a clear answer on that one.

After all, we’ve only been arguing about this for thousands of years.

And while we’ve migrated this conversation from personal autonomy to things like personal finance (“financial freedom goals”), what we’re really wrestling with is whether we have the freedom to just be.

Be who we are.
Be a fan of the Jays.
Be safe in knowing there’s a world tomorrow and you can face it.

All of this is internal.

If we can get freedom there, then we can affect what’s out here.