{"id":186,"date":"2025-09-26T06:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:13:41","slug":"on-freedom-and-the-burden-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/philosophy\/on-freedom-and-the-burden-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"On freedom and the burden of choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I value autonomy: the freedom to choose one&#8217;s own path, free from coercion or influence. This freedom is integral and forms the core of my values. This comes with a cost; the choices are mine and so is the blame. Some decisions are irreversible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To choose one\u2019s own path is to carry both the upside and the failures without excuse. It is easier to follow someone else&#8217;s path, to direct the blame when things fall apart. But true autonomy offers no such excuse. It asks for vulnerability and courage: to face regrets, failures, and still to say:\u00a0<em>this life is mine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I value autonomy: the freedom to choose one&#8217;s own path, free from coercion or influence. This freedom is integral and forms the core of my values. This comes with a cost; the choices are mine and so is the blame. Some decisions are irreversible. To choose one\u2019s own path is to carry both the upside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[17,21,23,11],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-philosophy","tag-inquiry","tag-living","tag-personal","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}