Whene’er I dwell on freedom in my leisure time (mostly when I am left alone for time enough to jump off a cliff and into my mind), a ripple of electric shock excites some brain cells which right away create several vivid pictures one after another. I thereby let my eyes’ lids droop to reduce distortion (i.e., reality) and see a clear meadow on the foothill of a rather snow-covered mountain on a sunny day during spring. By the meadow, a fierce, noisy waterfall nourishes the flora and fauna residing in the neck of the woods. I, with my passionate lover amidst colourful flowers, frolic naked, running towards the waterfall.
Under the waterfall, we look deep into each other’s eyes and get closer and closer until the two serpents are perceived as one. A rational thought thus occurs - what if it ends rather painfully? What if she doesn’t want this in the future? Or more importantly, what if I don’t want this?
Do we really want to be free?
When humans reach the phase of life wherein they perceive themselves to be confident enough to explore the novelties of life and surroundings on their own, they yearn to be unconfined and dream about exercising their free will all the time. Eventually, as they grow up, they are free to choose to be free from any mental and physical chains dragging their pasts into their presents and later on to their imaginary worlds - the future. Yet, a child in them lost during the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, wants to be born again soon after they realise that freedom means responsibilities in actuality.
Certainly, humans yearn to be unbounded and dream about living an independent life all the time. As adults, they are free to be free from every bond they've created with other entities and objects (conscious and unconscious). Yet, part of them wants to be restricted as they realise that controlling one’s mind seems implausible. The mind motivated by pleasure makes humans self-destructive. To save themselves from this self-destruction, they invite others to their lives to set boundaries for them (obviously unintentionally). Let them free, and they will feel like a maniac.
“Everyone wants to be a child once they realise freedom is not an asset but a liability.”
//Freedom, Individualism, and Boundaries//
//redhya//
Under the waterfall, we look deep into each other’s eyes and get closer and closer until the two serpents are perceived as one. A rational thought thus occurs - what if it ends rather painfully? What if she doesn’t want this in the future? Or more importantly, what if I don’t want this?
Do we really want to be free?
When humans reach the phase of life wherein they perceive themselves to be confident enough to explore the novelties of life and surroundings on their own, they yearn to be unconfined and dream about exercising their free will all the time. Eventually, as they grow up, they are free to choose to be free from any mental and physical chains dragging their pasts into their presents and later on to their imaginary worlds - the future. Yet, a child in them lost during the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, wants to be born again soon after they realise that freedom means responsibilities in actuality.
Certainly, humans yearn to be unbounded and dream about living an independent life all the time. As adults, they are free to be free from every bond they've created with other entities and objects (conscious and unconscious). Yet, part of them wants to be restricted as they realise that controlling one’s mind seems implausible. The mind motivated by pleasure makes humans self-destructive. To save themselves from this self-destruction, they invite others to their lives to set boundaries for them (obviously unintentionally). Let them free, and they will feel like a maniac.
“Everyone wants to be a child once they realise freedom is not an asset but a liability.”
//Freedom, Individualism, and Boundaries//
//redhya//
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