behave like free spirits

"To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable."

Helen Keller

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Sometimes I need to be totally alone to remember that I'm free. It makes me feel peaceful, and not worried. I remember that I'm only me, that I'm so insignificant, that all the world doesn't rest on my shoulders or rely on my behaving the way I always have or the way others expect me to.  I live in a present moment in which I can make any decision I want, and the world will not spin off its axis.  And then I feel freedom-- to just be in the world and enjoy it and take chances with my life. I'm not in control, and it takes a weird kind of strength to keep admitting that.