Recent Musings:
Freedom.
Sunday, January 8, 2006
We all claim to be free, I think. I don't think, however, that we act as free individuals. Our decisions, our actions and our lives are generally constrained, either by fear or by limitations or by external influences.
I do like the concept of freedom for myself; I like the concept of becoming everything I was meant to be. I interpret this to say that I have the freedom to determine how far I can advance or educate or better myself, or not. Everyone is free to do that, or not.
It's such a hard concept to grasp, and seeing as my brain is still not functioning full capacity, I may be a bit limited and shallow in my explanation. But the main idea is that we are just as guilty in inhibiting our own freedom as are the ones or the things we think are holding us back and telling us we can't. If we allow our freedom to be prevented, then it will be.
Enforcing this is a new reality I've learned, that everything, absolutely everything, will have problems - from the car breaking down to the coffee machine overflowing, from the sole of the shoe that falls off mid-stride to the faulty laundry detergent that eats away at your clothes, from the movie plans with your mother to the scheduling at work. It would almost be more realistic to be surprised when things go right than when they go wrong! It's a matter, then, of skating through the problems, learning how to solve and fix and overstep these issues. We are free to do that as well, free to soar above the expected deterioration of anything and everything and still enjoy, still appreciate, still succeed within that freedom.
Anyway, I don't know if this all makes sense. I do know that I don't always soar in my freedom. But alas, I'm learning, and understanding this mentality almost makes my life more enjoyable.