True Freedom: Why Control Disappears When Fear Is Gone

I you may have heard I often make the joke that despite my mom dying, my dad dying, he did okay. We weren't wealthy by any means. We had a nice house, but you know, it wasn't a luxurious existence as a kid. And then my my dad didn't remarry, but a woman came into

our life um about 5 years after my mom passed. So she was a common law wife and so everything went to her. So I literally had not a penny, which really pissed off. I have some slashbiological type almost family in Belgium. My mom was from Belgium and they were very angry about the fact that I was

literally the only nex and only child and yet everything went to this woman who my dad chose. So I I found peace with the fact that it was his decision. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> But I would joke that, you know, despite not being left a penny, I I'm a trust fun baby >> cuz I trust in life.

>> Yeah. Yeah. >> And that's not always been that categoric for me. For sure. I've had my moments of dipping in and out of fear and, you know, survival, which is the sort of default setting of a human being. Like that's the primordial imperative of every man mammal is to make it. >> Yeah.

>> So we're going to be in the state of like you know looking out for perceived threat. >> So that becomes then the obstacle to full self expression. So really that was a lot to say on the back of my initial answer of one word which is safety. You know do I feel safe enough to let go of

what doesn't serve me which takes a lot of trust which >> and you really have this trust. Sorry to interrupt, but you also really have this trust in the present of course, but the future like this this this notion of the future is made up anyway. >> Yeah. >> But you the way that you stand on the