# Actual Freedom ~ Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions ## Difference Between Realisation and Actualisation?
| Is there any difference between a realisation and an actualisation?
| [The ‘sensational’ event did not remove the survival drives?] Or if it did, somehow a vestigial self/ identity remained? Presumably, in spite of the ‘aggrandising’, it took you 11 years to get what was happening sufficiently to do something about it.
| It does matter what we leave for the future generations because we are doing it for our own future ‘selves’. By ‘The Voyage of a Life-Time’ do you mean enjoying this life as it is here and now as nobody in particular?
| I keep day-dreaming/ thinking and get into fears and anxieties ... my mind slips away from a simple state (awareness of the moment) to some complex state (memories, feelings, thoughts, recollections) and I get confused. What about when I find out what happened to end feeling good and I see that it is silly to keep worrying about it yet that doesn’t stop the worrying and I am not back to feeling good? I am not able to see the silliness of feeling bad ...
| I see now that ‘faking care’ isn’t what you mean by ‘feeling caring’. Reflecting on the many instances I’ve seen where Richard says that only a handful of the hundreds of visitors to the site actually ‘get it’ – I’m beginning to understand why. It takes persistence and stubborn will not to give up – no matter what. In other words, the 180 degree metaphor is no understatement – and it’s a bit like standing on one’s head until it ‘clicks in’.
| While in the flight I happened to remember Richard’s ‘looking between the stars instead of looking at the stars and realizing infinity’ (paraphrasing here) and I wondered how could there be infinity when the line joining the stars is finite until I happened to look behind that line and away (along the line of sight itself) and whoa it sucked for me a second or two into an infinite like abyss – but again the logical mind comes back to say ‘nah dont commit to infinity’.. but in all was a fun exercise !
| E xample of “near-actual caring” actualised.
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