Life is strange.

We spend years trying to figure it out, searching for answers to questions that often have no simple answers. We want to know where we are going, why certain things happen, and whether the decisions we make today will eventually lead us where we want to be.

Yet perhaps one of the greatest paradoxes of life is that we are expected to live it before we fully understand it.

We want certainty, but life rarely gives us certainty.

We want control, but so much of what happens to us is beyond our control.

We want time to slow down when we are happy, but hurry when we are suffering. We want to grow older when we are young, then wish we could return to moments we once couldn't wait to leave behind.

That is the paradox.

We Want Freedom, Yet We Seek Security

Most of us want to be free.

We want the freedom to choose our careers, relationships, lifestyles and destinations. But at the same time, we want guarantees.