India had been calling me for a long time, and when I finally answered, I thought I was going there to deepen my yoga practice. What I didn’t expect that on my very first day, a single sentence would completely reshape how I understand freedom.

As I navigate the unpredictable waters of full-time freelance life, I keep revisiting a conversation I had with a fellow freelancer a few weeks ago. We found ourselves deeply immersed in the classic debate: security or freedom.