What you need to know:
As human beings, we become attached to things we cannot control. We want other people to behave the way we think they should. But their actions have never belonged to us, which is why we are so often disappointed when they choose differently.
Throughout my life, I have approached almost everything with questions. It is through curiosity that I have come to understand the world and the people in it. I may not ask those questions out loud, but I do in my mind and, sometimes, in my writing. The books I read tend to ask the same questions I grapple with, and that is often how I choose what to read. And I have recently realised that I collect more questions than I answer. So I picked up Of Human Freedom by Epictetus.
In Of Human Freedom, Epictetus explores what it really means to be free. Through a series of arguments, he challenges many of the assumptions we make about freedom.
It is a question I have grappled with for a long time. I have always wondered what it means to be free, or whether I am free. According to Epictetus, I couldn't have been further from being truly free.
