Freedom

Freedom might be just another state of mind, a feeling of liberty, of absence of restrictions, of freedom from all bonds. I have been asking myself for the past hours what could be freedom for me? Afterall, although we are free we can never be totally free. Total freedom would mean a lack of principles, a lack of self-control and a lack of balance and without those three factors we can never be happy.

In this sense I think freedom is good as long as it is limited. Like all good things are good if taken in small portions, freedom does not escape this rule. Take the example of a child, allowing him or her complete freedom would mean that the child would not be able to acquire knowledge on what is good or bad. The lack of total freedom from doing everything will make the child start thinking that some things are good while others are bad. The child will then grow up with this knowledge and this might help him more than once in his adolescence and adult life.

I did not want to talk about slavery or the fight for freedom as I wanted to base myself more on a modern and contemporary context. This is just a short post on freedom, the word being MBB’s theme of the week.

I join in Morinn’s trend and say, goodnight dudettes and dudes.