People tend to assume that the majority’s choice is the “right” one. So when they see someone step outside of it, they instinctively ask, “Why?” When someone leaves a major corporation: “Why?” When someone chooses not to marry: “Why?” When a couple has no children: “Why?” But the real question behind that “why” is this: “Why don’t you do what everyone else is doing?” In other words, they are not truly asking about the reasons for your life. They are simply questioning why you do not belong to the majority. Yet every question works both ways. If “Why are you a freelancer?” is a valid question, then so is “Why do you work a conventional full-time job?” Choices are not superior or inferior to one another. They are reflections of different values. Being in the majority does not automatically make something right.