With all that is available, most of us have given up the right to have a say in our own lives for the convenience of not having to grow, manufacture, process, create, etc., the things we consume or use to stay alive in. Giving up choice in some areas gives some of us time to do other things besides merely survive. Jo bit at her lip as she thought of the words to continue. She paused a moment and the silence screamed for an explanation. I also believe that what choice we have, involves being able to choose our direction but not necessarily the circumstances surrounding that direction.
Some people have 'Principles' of convenience.
As soon as it becomes a little tough or they 'feel' out of control, they make the necessary changes to stay in some imagined comfort zone. Being able to have direction and choose your surrounding circumstances, equivalent to staying in some comfort zone, is real mastery and is much easier the fewer people or requirements of your choice there are. A person can have very little they value and very few people they relate to and appear to have total control over their lives. The reality of interdependence requires a person to modify their direction to consider others or be doomed to extermination by isolation. In this, I don't think I'm all that different than other people.