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Restriction

These days, we have almost unlimited career options to pursue. Most of them can be accomplished by most people. This leads us to a very difficult situation - we don't know if we are doing what we are "meant" to do. The biggest freedom we can have is accepting the fact that we don't need to know what the best occupation for us is. Yes, we need to do something to take care of the practical aspects of our lives, like food, mortgage, etc., but I don't think that's where most of us are struggling with. Most of us struggle within, wondering why we are doing what we are doing. And especially when we see someone else "succeeding" in the world, and if that someone else was seen as somehow inferior to us in the past, then we feel even worse about our own condition. What a pathetic conditioning of the mind! To get away from this unnecessary pain, the only choice we can make is to fully accept our present situation. We can even restrict ourselves to whatev...