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My
uncle once said that to acquire freedom we need to sacrifice. I didn't fully
grasp it as the whole concept, but if freedom here was being considered as
someone's goal, hence to achieve the goal we need to sacrifice one thing over
another, let say: We sacrifice time for the loved ones or losing the loved ones
for the time we spend in achieving our goal. Yet, the dream is being free, so does freedom mean losing
your time or your loved ones?
Sometimes, as humans, we're being blinded by the concept of
freedom itself. We desire success for financial freedom, time freedom, and
excellent health, yet whilst we're on progress, we are only allowed to have one
kind of freedom during our lives, or if we're lucky, two is exceptional.
WHAT IS FREEDOM?
I
used to uplift the concept of freedom by being able to do whatever I wanna do,
wherever I wanna go. It's whatever, whenever, wherever - and, to whoever
judges, it's like why on earth do ya fuckin' care? Yet if freedom is
truly based on that concept, doesn't it make us so rough? Because it seems like
the world of no rules, and it sounds too selfish. Because eventually if freedom
does truly exist in a very literal concept, I guess all we have is just an endless
moment of chaotic. Now, it's time to think and ponder: Does freedom make us responsible?
If
the definition of freedom is being free to choose any options in life, I do
agree that we need to be responsible for the options we chose in the first
place. Yet it doesn't mean freedom makes us responsible, but somehow at the end
of the day freedom always leads to responsibilities.
Talking
about responsibilities, I take this as the obligations, so if we relate it to
freedom we're talking about, no matter how or what, between the two is vastly
contradictive. The concept of freedom here also becomes blurrier as it becomes
subjective. Everyone has their own standpoint toward freedom. Hence, apart from
the established definitions of freedom, some people have theirs.
However,
everyone is dreaming the freedom. We want freedom for our time, our finance,
and our health. As we mentioned in the beginning, yet we are all allowed to
have one kind of freedom from the three kinds. Let's take a moment and think,
what's yours now? A bunch of money? The wherever and whenever? The fresh and
the strong? As for me today, I have the third (excellent (physical) health)
while struggling for the time and the money, which often makes me frustrated.
No wonder, for I become some kind of walking into the pond of 'grocery list'
society has made. The standards that need to be fulfilled. Everyone has the
same common dreams - to settle, to have a nice job, to have a house, to get
married, to have children, to have a car, to own fancy things, to travel the
world with the loved ones, and - you could tell! The grocery list that
demands the three freedoms or maybe yes – only two is exceptional enough.
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“Even if what the world demands haven't been yet in my hands,
but the whole world is inside my mind.”
I've
shared my ‘obsolete’ version of freedom, but after through some ups and downs
these past two years, I guess that today my personal view has also changed. I
do agree with the freedom of taking the decisions and being responsible for the
options. Yet above all, I
am thinking freedom begins from the mind. We cannot be suffering from
not having them all, but we can free ourselves from every negative thought,
negative trait, and bad habit. Even if what the world demands haven't been yet
in my hands, but the whole world is inside my mind. I want to be free from my inner demon, so I could be happy regardless of how shitty life could be. As
freedom now begins from the mind, it begins the open heart, and so that begins
the happiness.
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My
uncle once said that to acquire freedom we need to sacrifice. I guess we do all
know what's to sacrifice now. And my freedom doesn't have to be losing what and
who I love the most. And I hope that you too - for everyone who seeks for
freedom.
