freedom...
What’s the definition of freedom? I think it varies abit for different people in different circumstances and different places. Personally, freedom is something I feel people take for granted, not wanting to sound all political but it’s just a thought that went through my mind during the weekend. What does the term freedom encapsulate?
1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : INDEPENDENCE c : the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous
d : e : the quality of being frank, open, or outspoken f : improper familiarity g : boldness of conception or execution h : unrestricted use 2 a : a political right b : FRANCHISE, PRIVILEGEsynonyms FREEDOM, LIBERTY, LICENSE mean the power or condition of acting without compulsion. FREEDOM has a broad range of application from total absence of restraint to merely a sense of not being unduly hampered or frustrated . LIBERTY suggests release from former restraint or compulsion . LICENSE implies freedom specially granted or conceded and may connote an abuse of freedom .
I guess this only means we are never really free, only given a certain amount of freedom of let to believe so. I know most people would say that this would be a touchy issue given the fact that the elections are just days away; my place is a walkover, FYI. But no, this topic isn’t about them, they are just an organization and in every organization and are people with good intentions, blinded intentions, selfish intentions and just plain stupid intentions. The freedom I am talking about its one of a more personal note, one only we ourselves will have if we fight for it.
I dun wan to go in depth into my whole take on freedom in the ‘civilized’ world, it’s just too mind boggling and I actually predict myself being contradicting and derogatory, so why bother eh?
Just one thought, if you can speak up for certain wrong done to you, without any fear of the consequences not saying that there will not be any, you are free. If you can decide to stop doing what you are doing and do what you want, then you are free. If you are given the proper respect and empowered to make choices as a professional, you are free. If you can love who you want and hate who you want openly, you are free. If you can follow you dreams, you are free. All these are what make the split roads in people’s lives, choices that we as people have to make, to exercise that freedom that we are entitled to or to just take the easy road out. I have taken the liberty of excluding the main excuse that everyone uses when it comes down to not having freedom, money. I have no answer to that and I believe there will never be any answer to that problem. I chose not to link them as problems rather to split that up as separate problems for a hope of solving at least one of them. The most important one; freedom.
If you know you have a certain amount of freedom more than others dun take it for granted, it is to me, highly insensitive. Freedom is a god-given right that is highly underrated.
1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : INDEPENDENCE c : the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous
d :
I guess this only means we are never really free, only given a certain amount of freedom of let to believe so. I know most people would say that this would be a touchy issue given the fact that the elections are just days away; my place is a walkover, FYI. But no, this topic isn’t about them, they are just an organization and in every organization and are people with good intentions, blinded intentions, selfish intentions and just plain stupid intentions. The freedom I am talking about its one of a more personal note, one only we ourselves will have if we fight for it.
I dun wan to go in depth into my whole take on freedom in the ‘civilized’ world, it’s just too mind boggling and I actually predict myself being contradicting and derogatory, so why bother eh?
Just one thought, if you can speak up for certain wrong done to you, without any fear of the consequences not saying that there will not be any, you are free. If you can decide to stop doing what you are doing and do what you want, then you are free. If you are given the proper respect and empowered to make choices as a professional, you are free. If you can love who you want and hate who you want openly, you are free. If you can follow you dreams, you are free. All these are what make the split roads in people’s lives, choices that we as people have to make, to exercise that freedom that we are entitled to or to just take the easy road out. I have taken the liberty of excluding the main excuse that everyone uses when it comes down to not having freedom, money. I have no answer to that and I believe there will never be any answer to that problem. I chose not to link them as problems rather to split that up as separate problems for a hope of solving at least one of them. The most important one; freedom.
If you know you have a certain amount of freedom more than others dun take it for granted, it is to me, highly insensitive. Freedom is a god-given right that is highly underrated.
posted by guo wen at 11:16 AM
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