longing for the freedom of our chains

• the frequent choice to remain within the predictable, the safe, the familiar, even the miserable, thinking it preferable to the uncertainty of the unknown
• Freud identified what he called “the repetition compulsion” ... (speculating) that one might repeat the traumatizing experience as somehow “safer” than the original, believing .. that it will be better this time
• letting go of the old is apparently much more difficult than we think