freedom

Freedom is the ability to do as you please, yet achieve your goals.
Freedom is not being afraid to say what you feel because honesty is the best way forward.
Freedom is not being shackled emotionally or psychologically.

Strange thing is, most of us have not experienced freedom in quite a bit. Perhaps keeping to social and work norms have compromised our right to enjoy freedom.

In the work place, we cannot really speak our mind, because there may be colleagues who cannot bear to hear the blazen truth, or worse still, there may be colleagues just waiting to pounce on your idea and make it his own.
In our social life, we are also guarded about what we say, lest others get the wrong idea of us. If we say we miss a person, most would think in the context of couples without realising that friends do miss each other's company too. If we speak our mind too bluntly, we tend to avail ourselves to being labelled something or the other.

BUT, when you've gotten your life together and been there and done that - freedom should be our daily mantra. After all, after 40 years of bull, we must already know who belongs to the inner circle and who doesn't.
So, to hell with norms - life is getting shorter and I would like to get the last part right....