freedom

we hear about it from rioters.
my best friend hollers it back at his mom when she grounds him.
its the term we express when people pass away.

everybody talks about freedom - but what is this omnipotent entity that everybody so longs for? and do people actually want it?

freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose - janis joplin

for me freedom is like the sun. stay far enough, but in its presence, and it supports life. get to close and scorch to death.
pure, unadulterated freedom would be one in which a person is completely uninhibited by social norms, political agendas or even personal constraints. a person without the ability to consider consequence. a person so detached from everything around him that he is neither influenced by, or influences his surroundings. a sate of constant, eternal oblivion.
and a world full of completely free people would be like a world full of drifting entities. aimless wanderers, occasionally bumping into one and another but moving along unaffected.
but who would want something like this? who would want to be so free, that his actions have no consequence. his presence makes no impact. his existence would be so reclusive and so independent it were almost as if he never existed.

when ever i hear about freedom i always think back to the season II finale of Greys Anatomy, in which Burke leaves Cristina at the alter. he says that if he truly loved her he would let her go... he would let her be free. the episode ends with cristina standing in her white gown yelling 'im free... im free..' but there isnt a trace of happiness in her shaky voice as she begins to rip her clothes and jewelry off her, whith meridith supporting her from the back.

the most basic of all human needs is to want and be wanted.
god was concocted to place a power higher than ourselves - so that we could surrender resposibilty - be a slave of fate
we spend our entire lives in the pursuit of happiness. but a truly free individual would be one that looked within himself for this. his journey would end with his own self discovery.
by our very nature we are individuals who dont enjoy freedom. we detest it. we shun away from it. we spend our entire lives cowering from it.

so when i hear people screaming for it, i cant help wonder whether they have completely understood what they asked for.... and then, if they truly want it.