This is Water - Alumni Bulletin - Kenyon College

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race"-the constant gnawin... See more

the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.

But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options.