What is freedom?
- aleshanee
- May 12, 2015
- 1 min read
What most of us believe freedom is is not freedom. We label as freedom our craving for what is missing.
A constant traveller would like to be free to stay in one place (s)he would call home and relax. While a workaholic used to work all day and part of the night in a closed office will dream of freedom as travelling as much as (s)he want. An unemployed person will think of freedom as the ability to choose and work his/her dream job. The person in jail to see the sunrise in the horizon and smell the ocean or freshly cut grass. The homeless will think of freedom as choosing his/her cosy shelter.
Freedom is a deluded ideal. Once we get some of what we think freedom is, we first cling to it. We create an attachment which is also not freedom. When we are in the position of having too much of it, we get bored with it. And we crave for what is missing again...
Freedom is often a concept that makes us human being run. We run to get what we crave for and once we have it, we run looking for more until we realize it will never be enough. There will always be more.
Freedom is not having freedom. Freedom is stop running after it.
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