Freedom a loaned permanent word for one's feeling. Freedom a keyword of own space, self-being, abled expression, happiness, soreness, and dignity. Good to have them underlined and ticked in check, pity still that, 'freedom an empty yet powerful state to be in.'[1]
I remember having a conversation with a very filthy moneyed businessperson who told me the sad truth about being where he is, saying; we push with our all to make it. Then we make it feel happy and the same time stress comes of not wanting too many people near you, but that's nothing because 'naturally, power repels the meek'[2]. The other stress is that you can't run your business alone, so you have to delegate roles to trusted people around you whom you've employed. Stress is, the very ones you hired can make a mistake that can see you wake up bankrupt after sleeping the last night wealthy. That's the capital stress of any businessperson, and that's giving people the freedom to be and do on your behalf.
Freedom can come in different guises and one of them may be that of financial breakthrough. Yes, it might be fancy being you for a minute but reality quickly catches up with you on a whole host of issues that are burdened with financial freedom. The first one being the envy of those trapped in the quagmire of pain and sorrow that may be in the form of being stuck in a meaningless job or career, not being able to say what they really want, not affording the diet they're supposed to keep for their wellness, etc, that'll show you that freedom not so free. When you're free, people tend to treat you bad for your status in the beginning if they don't get what they want for free anything that they may demand, with the premise that you've changed and talked you bad.
Freedom a temporary term to a lot of us in our lives. Freedom a wish within happiness in that we are free to live, choose, do, etc, but honestly we aren't free to be. Those who dare be, do so then later backtrack to compliant mode they're known and accepted as subjected to. A colleague of mine told me something profound just the other day during a brainstorming session that; "put a man in a costume that hides their face and see how they'll behave. The results will shock you!!" She further said, "most men are trapped silently and will express their freedom of true self during that brief stint inside the mascot costume." This left me asking myself why is freedom a secret? Why be free when seen not as who you are? This simply saying freedom a loaned feeling.
As a thought and concept, freedom can be everlasting. Such evidenced by how we now are treated as citizens during the lockdown (the era of mask and sanitizer). The rights we know are all trampled upon by the very stewards of then staunch human rights activism advocates who fought so hard for those rights to be enshrined in the constitution but look at them today. Freedom of expression, movement, choice, all taken away from us, and now displaying that freedom has a price tag, is arrogant and knows it's select few.
But then, it seems like freedom is not a good thing. It corrupts soles, disunifies nations and families, seduces power, destroys morality, that's why a bulk of it is never mined at most.
In conclusion: it doesn't matter how we touch it, the subject of freedom remains a pure utter concept. It also remains a skill for one to see how they hold on to it so as to sustain it for themselves, cos others did so by buying their way into it via donating, others via pledging volunteerism, others via essential services provision, but as for others a sorry state of adherence to regulatory guidelines that stole all privileges away from them. So, like I said in the opening round; freedom a loaned permanent word for one's feeling...
[1, 2] by Kgele Leso.
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