THE ENSLAVING FREEDOM.

            The media is abuzz with a lot of injustice, oppressions and other information being disseminated to the public. People are taking sides on what should be right and wrong, while others are indifferent about any changes around them. We are in the era of revolutions and fight for justice, a time where people speak out or find compassionate people to do so on their behalf. Freedom is now more accessible but it has slowly become our doom and limitations.
        Recently, people have become more aware of the normalized oppression they have been subjected to and everyone is fighting back the system that enforces this unforgivable act. The more freedom we get, the more we still crave that it has become a drug of dependence that resists any rehabilitation.
        Drawing the line between freedom and insensitivity is almost impossible to achieve. Even if we build walls as high as the heavens around our cities to keep the different ones amongst us, it still won’t stop people from demanding a right to something we find repulsive, selfish, out-of-the-norm or absurd. The complexity of the human mind has made it impossible for us to want the same things and choose to see things in the same light.
       In the course of our everyday activities, we desire new things and achievements that we set our minds to or work towards achieving. When we face a limitation in achieving what we want, we begin to think of ways to overcome the challenge which may include desiring the thing restricting us. From this moment of limitation, we begin to crave authority over what we perceive as a restriction hence the desire for freedom is ignited.
     The freedom of a group becomes the shackles and discomfort to another group but we don’t really care about that because our life is a survival of the fittest and the privileged. The struggle for freedom has been a tug of war between human rights and moral guide, the desire to allow people have their freedom to be the best they can be and the moral value of it not offending another social group is the origin of a lot of unending feud and discriminations.
       Freedom is a beautiful feeling that may even bring one to euphoria, hence it is addictive. How far are we willing to go to achieve a life without restrictions to anything that crosses our minds? We are all different after all, so why should we still let the society dictate what is right and wrong to us? Is there such a thing as too much freedom? Are moral and religious guidelines necessary in defining freedom in this era?
        Our diversity, ambition, principles, beliefs, culture and religion have an undeniable role to play in how we live “our” lives. Even the liberal ones amongst us who claim to live with no restrictions and principles, fail to realize that decision alone is a principle itself as well as the moral guide that influence actions. Even if we have an open discussion on what should be legal or illegal, we can never eliminate all the injustice of the world because of our endless needs. Reaching a compromise is the best we can do on enforcing the law without consideration for those who may feel restricted and repulsed at the society indulgence of such right.
  Even in hate and discrimination there is tolerance and compromise. The ability to meet up with people who share resentful views as you, reach an agreement on how to invoke chaos and execute the evil plan is enough to show even the worst among us is capable of tolerating others. We need to open our mind to the diversity around us. Diversity is the reason for our growth and development as a race and whether we admit it or not, most of the privileges we enjoy are as a result of diversity, hard work or exploitation of some other social group.
Embracing diversity, love and tolerance doesn’t necessarily make us become who we despise. Learning to respect others and treating them the same way we would like to be treated doesn’t make us less human, it only improves our chances of survival because we learn new ways and views on how to achieve our dreams and attain self-accomplishment. Tolerance, love and dialogue are the only way and everyone is capable of embracing these qualities. We are born into the societal unit called family who learn to love, care for and tolerate us. When the family isn’t capable of giving us all these, we seek companionship and survival in friendship and other associations where we indulge in a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with other people.
Desires that may harm another social group or cause loss to their lives and properties should be reevaluated. We truly have our own lives to live as an individual but our actions have an interwoven consequence to us and people around us. Some revolutions have yielded freedom to an oppressed social group whose freedom was a “threat” to another social group while other revolutions have the same devastating effect on different culture, religion and people.
Freedom is mostly subjective because we are sometimes too greedy and biased about our comfort to realize we are oppressing other people. The desire for freedom is insatiable from birth to death, we will always desire dominance over everything around us.
Everyone has a personal desire and differing perspective about things that even identical twins can’t share. Dialogue and tolerance is the only solution and solace we can get in this world of chaos and discriminations. Tolerance is the only true freedom people underestimate and obfuscate. We are selfish beings who desire to be at the top of the food chain and in control of all the elements around us, the terms some of us refer to as SUCCESSS and POWER.
Defining freedom is a heinous task that will keep make us turn in circles. As we grow and develop as a society, we wanting more and it is a continuous cycle that tests our resilience. Dialogue is the only way we can discuss and detect the freedom that liberates and destroys us.
          Kindness, love and tolerance, dialogue and embracing positive change is a practice we can use to keep freedom from limiting and leading us to destruction. Our individual uniqueness and ability to adapt to situations is what defines us as humans; a race with diversity due to topography, climate, skin pigmentation, culture and beliefs that must unite to develop.