Freedom Call
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at
7:52 pm
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“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”Sigmund Freud
Just about everyone claims to be in favor of freedom. But few seem to agree on what it means.
One person’s idea of freedom can actually violate another person’s freedom. To one person, it means doing what he wants with his own life. To another, it means doing what he wants with other people’s lives. Both say that the other one’s concept of freedom is tyranny.
Usually the first thing that we are asked (after our name) is “what do you do?” So we answer with our title or job description, but does that really describe us? We are much more than what we do during working hours, just as we are much more than the names we’ve been given. Our lives are the sum of our experiences, and each of these experiences has given us a story about who we think we are. No doubt you’ve heard that people live from their perceptions, or that perception is reality. Our perception…our story is what we live through.
