I pertain to individuals, and not of nation.
“I believe in free will, I didn’t have a choice.” - Isaac Bashevik Singer, Nobel Prize for Literature and Author of Gimpel the Fool
Years ago, I have this fiery feeling of liberation in me like almost all youth have. I really believed I’m that free to choose everything I want and do whatever I please to do. I believed I can be invincible. I believed I can make the impossible, possible. I believed I can have all the options in the world. If i want to be a soldier or a stewardess or a lawyer, I believed I can be. Emancipation is such a dream I long to have. But dreams are just dreams without empirical foundation to back up them. And as I grow, I start to question myself, are people really free?
Those who were born disable, why are not they given the freedom to walk? Those who are poor, why are not they given the freedom to eat three meals a day? Those who are blind, why are not they given the freedom to see the beauty of nature? Those who are mentally-retarded, why are not they given the freedom to think and reason out? Those who are deaf, why are not they given the freedom to hear the sweetness of melody? Those who are mute, why are not they given the freedom to speak and express themselves? Those who were dying, why are not they given the freedom to live longer?
I learned how limitations can hinder me or us from having choices and aspiring for more. But i’m not embittered with that fact of life because at least or maybe, I am still quite optimistic enough to use whatever I have to still dream. I am still given with something that could become my means to achieve. And to those people I mentioned, they might not be really that free, but i think they still also have something to enable them to live a worthwhile life. Because you see, the moment I stopped thinking that someday things would fall into the places I want them to be, I will lose the essence of my being and my life. I live because I dwell on my purposes, and dreams are one of the best purposes we could have in life. Without them, everything would be just a bleak view of nightmare.
I use “I”, because I am speaking for myself since I do not have the faintest idea of what your beliefs are. We might have different views so I better not identify my perspectives as a general view.
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