Let’s try to brake it down a little bit, by talking about some day to day examples: 

When I wake up in the morning and struggle to get out of bed, Yet,
I still have to do it because I have work. Is that a lack of freedom?

It gets a little ironic in certain situations.
Imagine I’m working for an office fighting for human rights.
I’m getting paid for it, and it requires my effort.
This job now takes away my ability to stay in bed.
Am I losing my freedom while fighting for freedom?

Do we wanna be absolutely free?

What if the situation is the opposite? I have nothing to do at all, so I can sleep as much as I want.
When I wake up, there is still nothing waiting for me. I can eat whatever I want.  I can stay up as late as I wish, because there’s no responsibility the next day.
Is that freedom?

Obviously, if this is my lifestyle long-term, I’ll eventually pay the price for not being responsible.
Maybe one day I become sick or limited in what I can do. Did I lose my freedom then, simply because earlier I wanted so much to feel “free”?

Maybe we’re all limited simply because this is our nature?
I can’t fly or touch the moon. I’m limited by my body and its nature. Nothing can change that.
So what is this freedom we desire? Free from what exactly?
Are there limits we’re actually happy to accept?

Is being controlled by my boss or by some government rules fundamentally different from being controlled by our own nature?
Should we possibly accept those external controls as part of nature, and then we will not feel the need to break free from it?

We have no choice when it comes to break some limits 

Things get complicated, because we’re complicated. “Freedom” is not a simple value; it needs real investigation.

This isn’t black and white, but one thing is clear: if we measure freedom by technical conditions—“My boss wants…”, “My body requires…”, “My kids need…” – we will never break free. Something will always demand something from us. We can’t control the world. We can’t even fully control our own bodies.
We must obey at least some rules to survive, stay healthy, and live comfortably.
Are we giving up freedom then?

Not at all. But to break free, we must understand that freedom is not a technical, external situation.
We can never look at someone and say, “This person is free”.  Not either the opposite.
Freedom is felt from within,  and it’s deeply personal.

If I’m in prison but genuinely love my life there, in a strange way I am free.
If I live in a castle but feel trapped by my fears or concerns, then I’m not free at all.

Freedom is, first of all, a mindset. A mindset that takes training and technique like any other skill.

Embrace our limits (?)

No one feels a lack of freedom because they can’t fly. We don’t expect ourselves to fly.
We do feel a lack of freedom though where we want to break through this limit.
That’s where it gets exciting, and dangerous at the same time.

If we follow the logic simply, we might reach the conclusion:
“Let’s never try to break any limits. Trying to break limits means admitting limits exist, and that mindset will never lead to freedom. So we should embrace every limit and always stay in the comfort feeling of freedom.”

Nice try. Very nice. But impossible.

Most of the time we are surrounded by conflicting limits. Accepting one means breaking another. And we must break at least some limits.

Take our first example. I need to wake up early for work, but my body wants more sleep. If I fully embrace the “limit” of my tired body and stay in bed, I break the need to go to work. But the result might be losing my job, my income, maybe even my home, eventually I return to the same problem: my body requires some needs that I can only provide if I go to work.
To survive, I must break the “sleep more” limit.

So if we’re always fighting some limits, when do we ever become free?
Are we stuck in this loop forever?
Is breaking free impossible?

Free to choose some limits

At this point, it becomes clear that when we talk about freedom, we don’t mean being totally unlimited, doing nothing, and having no obligations. That’s impossible, and also wouldn’t make us any happier. That’s a chaos, not freedom.

When we talk about freedom, we mean the ability to choose the paths that make us feel alive, so we feel free while committing to them.

We want to reach a point where either choice leads to something positive, not something damaging. If I sleep a bit longer, I enjoy it without regret. If I go to work, I enjoy what I do enough that waking up early feels worth it.

If I want my kids to play on the roof, I need a fence. A clear boundary, so they can play within it. Without this boundary, they aren’t free to play at all.

The same is true for us. We want to be free within the limits we set for ourselves. Limits that protect us and point us toward the life we want.

To do that, we need to imagine the place we want to reach. What will we do to get there? Those choices create the frame that sets us free within it.

This is freedom that comes with effort, but leads to order, meaning, and happiness.

This freedom might not always be easy, but it always feels right.

May we all be free enough to choose the right path, and strong enough to enjoy its limits.