What Pain Taught Me About Freedom

The more I struggled with being controlled or limited, the more tightly I held on to my perceived need for freedom.

Growing up in a relatively conservative culture, whereby almost every decision I made or every action I took had to be approved or answerable to an authoritative figure or a social ideology, I remember how much I used to crave freedom.

I loathed unnecessary criticisms, baseless judgments, and unfair expectations. My own personal time and space became sac…