Limited Freedom

I guess this post is in responce to one of Vernonica's...which got me thinking.

Imagine that you are floating in emptyness. There is just you and nothing else. You're completely free and uninhibited because there is nothing to limit you. At the same time, you can't do anything because you're just floating there. There is nothing for you to percieve, and nothing for you to do, because you are all that is there.
Now add a horizon. Well, you've just limited yourself. You've taken the nothingness and divided it into an up and a down. Heaven and earth. You're still just floating there, but you have given yourself something to perceive...up vs. down. Well, you've limited yourself, but in doing so you've also freed yourself because you now have options. Now add gravity. You aren't floating anymore, because something is pulling you down to the ground. You aren't as free, but at the same time you can now walk around and do stuff. By giving up a bit of freedom, you gained something. I won't go on forever, but as you construct the world around you from nothing, you have to consistantly constrain yourself, but by sacrificing some freedom you actually gain more. Obviously this only works up to a point when you start sacrificng too much freedom and start just tie yourself down. By giving your world some defenition, you gain options. By leaving your world completely undefined you restric yourself, but by adding some defenition and some restrictions you make yourself more free. I believe that this applies to us as personalities as well as to all other aspects of our lives. If you leave yourself completely undefined then there is no you, just emptyness and unfulfilled possibilities. It all depends on finding the right balance.

I guess the point of all of this is that when you are completely free, you are also completely limited.