Comments on: Freedom! http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/ Ideas for a World Out of Balance Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: A Day On http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-12100 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:48:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-12100 Wow!  Really enjoyed that one. For what it’s worth, a description of freedom that I’ve run across is “enough.” The idea being that one more than enough enslaves you. Still trying to find that balance myself. 

To me, the quest for freedom feels like standing at the edge of a diving platform and being paralyzed even though in your mind you can “see” a perfectly executed dive. Performance anxiety, I guess.  When I just let go and enjoy it I can really experience it, but then I find myself cowering on the edge.

BTW, I really enjoyed the last images you chose to use. Your bravery in using them, to me, is how I define art.

]]> By: Billy Tarter http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11956 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:41:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11956 Yeah, okay, I guess I can agree with that.  But personally I don’t look forward to my family crying when I’m dead.  It seems like a peculiar form of narcissism to me.

But I suppose it’s okay if we disagree, as I agree with just about everything else you write.  Thanks for sharing so honestly; I’m really enjoying this blog.

]]> By: James Altucher http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11885 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:28:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11885 Well, I don’t think you misunderstood that (but maybe we have different conclusions). Sometimes there’s nothing sweeter than seeing a little girl cry and you know that one day it will be all better. 

]]> By: Billy Tarter http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11880 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:52:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11880 Just an absolutely beautiful piece, until the part where you wanted your daughters to be sad when you were dead, and seemed to relish their sadness.  Did I misunderstand that?  If you really love someone, you don’t want them to be sad.

]]> By: Brooke Farmer http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11853 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:25:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11853 Some people aren’t made out for office work. I think there is some value to finding work you enjoy and living modestly (even meagerly). 

]]> By: Brooke Farmer http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11852 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:21:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11852 I am far more experience-centered than wealth centered. (I quit my corporate job last year, by the way). I love your friend’s story. Very jealous in fact. 

]]> By: Ferns http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11834 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:06:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11834 *pets the little bed wetter on the head* Sorry sweetie, it’s just you…

Ferns

]]> By: Sooz http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11824 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:21:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11824 here’s a better version ‘live’ verses the youtube slooow copy from original .

http://youtu.be/C2rDp6FnbP0

]]> By: Sooz http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11817 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:16:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11817 ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ rates high on my favorite recordings list.
It’s hard to believe that the lyrics to this song were written over forty years ago. It’s message more relevant forty years later…

http://youtu.be/MPr_WQm0-UY

have a great weekend..:))

]]> By: Sooz http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/06/freedom/#comment-11813 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:12:00 +0000 http://www.jamesaltucher.com/?p=2267#comment-11813 ;))

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