Freedom: What does it mean
How does one define the word freedom? We hear it everywhere we go, everyone took it for granted that how one defines it is how the other defines it.
For one, freedom simply means the absence of restrictions as to what one can do. But then it cannot be call total freedom in this sense because no civilization would allow the total removal of rules and regulations. It is necessary for them to exist to encourage social order and harmony.
It would seem that freedom and waywardness are but a marginal difference apart.
There is another way to look at freedom. Most probably wont see it in this context simply because it is not true freedom in it is true sense of word. Rather it is a kind of freedom that is tailor made to suit each individuals need for it.
The freedom to do what one likes within the limits of the universal laws that exits around us. No matter how we view it, it is a true fact that humans are govern by universal laws that shapes our conscience, our empathy, our logic and our social behavior.
Many would argue that this is contradictory. How can one be truly said to have freedom if one still needs to observe social norms?
If one sees social norms as a fence that runs the circumference of ones life then it is without doubt that one will constantly feel the presence of and the closing in of the menacing loop that will eventually suffocate enthusiasm and stifle spontaneity.
Yet from an optimists point of view, it is living within ones means with unlimited ways of expressing ones thinking and ideologies. It is in itself the very act of freeing oneself without imposing oneself unnecessarily on another.
To have the courage to do what ones heart desires at ones own pace with the strength to be able to disregard others petty comments.
