How to live life Unrestrained

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

The feeling of living a restrained life is comparable to that of driving while having your foot on the brake and the gas pedal at the same time, pushing hard, wasting a lot of energy, getting nowhere, and not enjoying it at all, just terrible, not a way you want to live your life.

Stoic philosophy solution is so simple that it’s really hard at the same time. To live unrestrained, you need to know the difference between the things that are under your control, chiefly your will, and the things that are not, everything else. Do this and you will become able to push the gas or the break at your will. Let’s dig deeper.

A problem of courage

Most of the time, the feeling of restraint is really just a problem of courage. The lack of courage that comes when you cannot give yourself permission to live, if you’d just do this, give yourself permission to live, you’d immediately feel free and unrestrained.

When you lack the courage to live, you want, at least unconsciously, for other people to tell you how to live your life, be them your friends, your mother, or maybe the Instagram or YouTube stars. It can be anyone. It’s just easier, all you need is thumbs up or thumbs down, a happy face or a scorn face, it all boils down to being…