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We all seek, in one way or another to free ourselves from the chains that bind us. We often fail in the realization that these chains are only in our minds and can be broken by not a hammer, not by force, but by choice.
We choose to be bound by chains. The answer to freedom lies in the mind. The only one that holds us back is ourselves. We are our greatest foe and for comfort, security, and safety we clips our wings and bind our wrists in mental self-defeating and self-depreciating shackles.
I strongly feel we are scared to be free. We are afraid of success, afraid to live our own lives and make choices for ourselves.
It is much easier to follow a beaten path. It is far safer to have a boss. It is less risky to be dependent. Above all, its comfortable and secure.
Books upon books have been written throughout the ages regarding this subject of freedom. Books contain hundreds of pages. However, the issue of freedom lies only in one word: choice. Thats it, nothing more! Not too glamorous and definitely not enough to fill a book (haha).
Not everyone who claims to be free is free. Those who travel the globe in pursuit of culture may be running from confinement. Those who shed their belongings and exile themselves from the world may be ridding with guilt. Who knows how people feel. I do find it intriguing the number of people who obsess over the passion and the purpose of their species barely have a grip in understand their own self. Perhaps our neighbor serves us as a mirror to reflect on our inner nature.
I too seek freedom from myself.
I know what it takes to be free. It is a simple word: choice.
But now I must learn the difference between knowing the path and waking the path.
And sometimes I feel I am too afraid to get up on my feet.
As an afterthought I would like to say that I am beginning to believe that people become addicted to emotional states. For example, some choose to be victimized, martyred, sedated, and on. If so, then to become free one must transcend beyond irrational, instinctual thought and see the world and ourselves without fear.
June 5th, 2006 at 9:14 am
Hey there, just wanted to say hello. I posted before, but it didn’t work. I’m glad your doing well. We are back in the world of Buffalo and hopeing to move soon to the southern tier. When we were in GA I missed somethings from here, but now I feel like a caged bird. Nevada sounds beautiful. I have always wanted to see the dessert. Maybe we will go there someday for a vacation. You take care, and God bless.
Jessica
June 6th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
i couldn’t agree with this post more….or even more so this comment in particular:
“I am beginning to believe that people become addicted to emotional states”
I swear this addiction is pretty epidemic. It’s aggravating. I’m at a point now where I catagorize people by these emotional states and it is sometime hard to get past.
Anyhow, you post is completely relatable, I think everyone at sometime feels this way. Do you know what is holding you back? Is it fear of failure, fear of growth? My case was I knew that it was ridiculous to persue additional schooling knowing I was never going to take a new job and why waste my time and money, because I am more financially stable where I am now and my “career” of choice would take years upon years to match what I have now and who knows if it would make me truly happy. Vicious cycle of self-doubt.