What Is Freedom
July 4th, 2009 categories: Edits, Historic Neighborhoods
I thought for a moment that Freedom is an inborn quality:
Either you live with freedom or not.
Either you cling to things and people or you let them go.
Either you think independently or you follow the crowd.
Either you are a master of your energy or the energy is a master of you.
But now i think that freedom can be learned if this is our priority,
if we have the strong SENSE OF FREEDOM;
or we can become enslaved more and more by people and things and circumstances 
and our thinking narrows down. Some people like to be enslaved. It gives them a feeling they are needed.
I have never met a person who would be totally free.
There is always something somewhere keeping us from enjoying it.
The areas of life where we are not free are the very same places where the obstacles to harmony and happiness are.
It must be a lonely road to total freedom.
perhaps it is a goal impossible to reach.
perhaps we don’t really want total freedom,
Every time we are more free we gave up something else.
If ” freedom is just another word for having nothing to lose”
than being totally free would mean to be dead.
When we are alive we always have something to lose.
Maybe I never met anyone who is totally free because freedom is a process…
We encounter new situations and people every day -
are we free in relation to them or do they control us?
The road to freedom means to me :
letting go of one mind conditioning after another, one after another,
but i am creating also more conditioning in my mind along the way,
and each time it happens, I see that,
but it is so hard to let some of them go,
(those that make me me?)
it seems that i will give up myself if I do,
that I will feel bad- or is it the simple reason that I am not ready?
Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is relative. But it is never total.
no matter what we do, there is usually a system we are entangled in.
Even if we think we have chosen an alternative route or live unconventional life.
After all don’t we search for more freedom when we think it will make us happier?
Not just for the sake of it?
Joanna Zajusz
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