Reflection: Where Do You Hide?

Prompts to consider

• Kierkegaard says existential anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, not fear of a specific thing but vertigo at pure possibility. Identify a choice you have been avoiding. Is the avoidance driven by genuine practical constraints, or by something closer to Kierkegaard's anxiety, the discomfort of facing that you could actually choose differently?
• Sartre says bad faith involves pretending you have a fixed nature that determines your choices, 'I couldn't help it, that's just who I am.' Can you identify a story you tell about yourself, a trait, a habit, a limitation, that might be performing this function? What would it feel like to own it as a choice instead?
• Camus says the absurd must be lived in revolt, not resolved. Kierkegaard says the leap of faith is the only honest response to existential groundlessness. These are genuinely incompatible answers to the same question. Which do you find more livable, and more honest?