None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

A limit you can see is something you can argue with, plan around, or decide to accept. A limit you have mistaken for your own preference is available for none of that, because you will defend it as though you chose it. Much of what narrows a life is of the second kind: assumptions absorbed so early they feel like personality. The loss is not only the narrowing but the conviction that there is nothing there to examine.

Take one thing you are certain you simply do not want. Ask where that certainty came from, and whether you have tested it since.