How Can We Have True Freedom?

There seems to be nothing more important than this question.

In life, much of what we do is connected to something else, particularly in reaction to it. It is this way in most things we are obligated to do.

However, the real joy is when we make decisions regardless of what others expect, since that is the first formal declaration of self-freedom.

Indeed, when we choose to do something, and do it bravely, we give ourselves the space necessary to do better, even braver things.

No one owns your thoughts, feelings, and capacity to make decisions. You are the only one who knows what goes on in your particular reality.

In turn, no one can comprehend what we’re striving to be unless we willingly show it to the world, and convey it gracefully.

For it seems that, in seeing the surface image, people fail to understand what true freedom is, thinking that it is merely ‘freedom to do’.

No, freedom is certainly an existential trait, belonging to those who have not helplessly resigned their life to the will of the world.

If one can avoid being performative, and instead focuses on authenticity, it is easier for that person to conceive of true freedom in their lives.

It is also easier to be kind and virtuous when we feel free, since we can begin to realize the incredible value of meaningful, creative things.

It is all internal: one cannot possibly tell me they’ve attained freedom if they’re still clinging to wealth, desire, and their perceived status.

Ultimately, there is nothing to cling onto, since we are already free. Whatever it is we feel about that, that could be conditioning.

However, true freedom is freedom from one’s own thoughts, wherein we do not let what we think determine what we are or wish to be.

Nothing is worth worrying about if we can still do something about it.

Freedom is already here, and we just have to believe in it.

Thank you.