Freedom, Awareness, Discipline, Effort, and Caring for Others

"The essential kind of freedom involves attention, awareness, discipline, effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
— David Foster Wallace 

Hello, how are you? I’m fine, thank you for asking. It’s the second day of the new year; how did you spend your f…