Freedom(s)

Take a look around you. How many people that you are aware of behave similarly without questioning? How many get up within a specific hour every morning? How many eat similarly at pre-set times? How many have similar accommodation? How many have similar furniture? How many have similar schedules? How many have similar 9-5 job schedules? How many have similar debts? How many have similar goals and objectives? How many have similar possessions? How many have similar wants and fears? How many have similar values? How many have similar behaviours? How many have similar lives? How many are unhappy? How many are angry? How many are unhealthy? How many believe they have choices beyond the above? How many feel they are controlled by someone or something? How many feel they are ‘puppets’ at the end of someone’s or something’s ‘string’? How many feel totally controlled? How many feel like lashing out regularly at what they perceive as justifiable targets to supposedly exhaust their feelings? Hell, most of us do not even know how we would function and behave with freedom…do we?

Now, how can we all stand back and view the above similarities and not question our Freedoms? What Freedoms? To truly and accurately live our lives Free, there must be no constraints, restrictions, regulations, policies, laws, norms, brain-washing, mind control nor expectations. How close to being Free are we? We are all allowed to function ‘freely’ within the ‘cage’ and ‘compartments’ we have chosen. No wonder we continue looking for targets to vent our rage upon. No wonder we attack anything or anyone because of not being happy with ourselves. How many of us live by the following motto, "if I am unhappy with me, I`m going to take it out on you". No wonder there is conflict and war.

Why shouldn`t there be chaos and intolerance toward anything external in order to vent the suppression and control we feel. And, then we rationalize our behaviour by stating that we are ‘victims’ of our culture and society. How convenient? That, we have been subjected to this ‘mind control’ because we see some perceived value in the exercise, is more accurate. That, everything and anything we do is being generated or motivated by the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. And then what? What if all this is true? What if all the above behaviours are contingent upon greed and the subsequent fear of the loss of what greed brings us? Well, my friends, if we are to come out from under this ‘system’ of suppression, which we have wholeheartedly endorsed and supported in many ways, we must initiate a personal revolution within us. No, we do not have to organize in mass to overthrow the ‘powers at be’, because they are us. We have provided the encouragement, support, initiative, labour, energy, finances, markets, economy and our overall health toward our own folly. So, what we must do First is take responsibility for where we are at, and then decide to choose to be elsewhere in our lives. We must go through appropriate De-Programming and Re-Programming exercises to achieve our self-actualized potential. And, if we all do this, individually we will achieve ‘critical mass’ and the external revolution will occur as a result of our own Personal Transformation and we will all be FREE.

 

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