Boundaries can feel like a hinderance, and they often are, but they can bring freedom with them if you see the in the right light.
Last year I shared about the show “The 100”, and how I wished they had stayed inside of their initial boundaries instead of veering off into strange and unbelievable scenarios. You can find other ideas like that in the world of media, but this can apply to the real world as well.
In his book “Essentialism“, author Greg McKeown shares this story:
BOUNDARIES ARE A SOURCE OF LIBERATION
This truth is demonstrated elegantly by the story of a school located next to a busy road. At first the children played only on a small swath of the playground, close to the building where the grownups could keep their eyes on them. But then someone constructed a fence around the playground. Now the children were able to play anywhere and everywhere on the playground. Their freedom, in effect, more than doubled.
There are times when boundaries should be ignored or destroyed, but it’s worth considering how to make the most of the situation while within them.
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