Everyone says they want freedom.
No boss. No obligations. No one telling you what to do. The ability to wake up whenever you want and spend your time however you want.
Sounds wonderful. Until you actually have it.
Freedom has a hidden cost: responsibility.
When someone else controls your schedule, your failures are easy to explain. The company is badly managed. Your boss is an idiot. The system is unfair.
When you are completely free, there is nowhere to hide.
If you waste your day, it was your decision. If you don't exercise, your decision. If you spend years complaining about your life without changing anything, eventually you have to admit something uncomfortable. You participated.
This is why many people secretly prefer structure. Rules can be comforting. They remove decisions. They give us someone or something to blame.
Real freedom is much less glamorous.
It means deciding what matters without being told. It means accepting that nobody is coming to rescue you. It means having the courage to say, this is my life, and I am responsible for what I do with it.
Freedom isn't the absence of responsibility. Freedom is the acceptance of it.
And that's probably why so few people actually want as much freedom as they claim.