Our choices, between:
Duty, Fear, and Freedom

When taking a decision, we are usually driven by many personal motives. The types of such motives say a lot about our personalities, environments and upbringing.

Say you have a choice of careers, for example.

Some might think I have to work as a lawyer because this is what my Mom has always dreamed of.

Hence, we have that sense of “duty” towards our families, friends, society, religion, or political party...etc. regardless of how “passionate” we are about that choice.

Let’s look at another decision like choosing a major in school for example.

Some may think that a major in “Finance” would secure a better life financially than… I don’t know… “Literature”.

So we make decisions based on “fear” from the unknown, adventurous, mysterious, results!

Sometimes it takes reaching a certain age, or a particular event where we stop to ask ourselves:
What choices did we make to achieve a dream?
What choices were really liberated from the sense of duty? Or fear?
What choices of ours were really….FREE?


Do you know what motivates your decisions?