Does Free Will choose, or offer us the capability of Choice?

[The_Tired_Philosopher]

 What's next?  Making it happen?  Okay, I'll go change the State and Federal laws allowing me to go make a garden and small home in a nice quiet plot of land.  Or I'll save up the money to buy an acre of land and make my own damn--oh right then I'll need to get the licensing to build anything anywhere, and the certifications to do that, or this.  OR some legal nonsense stopping this from that or me from those or...

Maybe I'll leave the country.  So I'll just need to apply for citizenship in anothe--I'm nobody?  I can't?  Visa...?  But I've no where to go.

Maybe I'll just leave illegally here, and hope the feds/cops/authorities don't drag me out of my mini home hauling me off to prison for breaking their laws.

Laws were made for people who had no intention of following them in the first place.  Live your life how you want, consequences be damned.

If the choice is between "not feeling fulfilled because you settled" and "taking a risk".  I would rather take the risk.  

You can't win if you don't play.  And to quote shawshank redemption: get busy living, or get busy dying.  I don't mean to be blunt, it is just how I honestly see things.  I realize life can be hard.  If you really want something, you will find a way.  That's what this game is all about.  Games without limitations are boring.  The second I start using cheat codes in a game I lose interest very shortly thereafter.  Makes me appreciate challenges.  

Limitations actually *empower* creativity because you have to work with them.

Have you ever heard the phrase: Less is More?

Limitations come at a price.  I'm the kind of guy who played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with cheats constantly active, because it was too hard to play without them and still have fun.

And I'm all for fun...

Right down to Infinite Health, Ammo, and I'm still dying from explosions.  Losing to better AI drivers in races, unable to beat missions from vastly overpowered situations.  Yeah, you lose interest with cheats, I refer to them when they're available and I'm not having fun.

I like the idea of a risk, but how much is too much of a risk?  UHH...-crap who was it?!-

PASCALS WAGER
At what point is something not worth the risk?

Will you believe in Heaven if it means you'll get into Heaven just to get into Heaven?

Most people do, most people also believe in hell despite not knowing if it's real because the risk of it isn't worth the chances usually.

Simply put, the Megaupload.com owner was doing what he wanted, 50 years in prison for running a website.

Guy gets picked up off the street with a baggie o' weed, life in prison depending on the judge.

I got caught walking around my neighborhood 'drunk' or high twice now, I don't walk at night anymore.  I used to do so until I kept getting talked to by police who believed my 'drunk' stories and barely got out of Public Intoxication because I showed them where I fucking lived, at 3am in my own neighborhood with no one else around.

Honestly, I want everyone to understand I'm not willing to risk years of my life trying to just god damn enjoy my self.  A very real reality where I live...

I can't go out and buy a car without money, or make a home without supplies, or build a garden without land to cultivate.

Please realize you're telling a mouse it can open doors.  It's possible, but currently at this time, not probable or plausible to do 'whatever I want', I"m too busy trying to make ends meet to survive just comfortably.  I'm already hungry daily because I'm too tired of eating bad food screwing up my stomach, and I'm still looking for an organic farmers market that isn't an hour's worth of driving to and back since my car can't support that lifestyle too much longer as it is. Literally, I am not being lazy, I am trying to avoid my s*** screwing up, because I have so little of it left and I no longer can afford anything else to go wrong. And I assure you, in life, things go wrong.

I am heavily limited, it is not very empowering beyond making those moments of genuine compassion and wisdom shine exponentially so.