I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.