Do you feel that you are tied.....

.....or beholden to someone or some thing(s)?  You do?  Who?  What?  The reality is that none of us are so bonded.  We choose our commitments and we choose too, to allow these to restrict us.

Some limitations, though, are so deeply ingrained as to be entirely beyond question.  It is important that we celebrate these ties and bonds. They do not represent our prisons and punishments, they represent our freedom to decide what we are willing to make sacrifices for. 

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission 

can alter the course of history.   (Gandhi)