What does freedom taste like? One hears people say that they can ‘Taste Freedom’, that it is sweet as honey. It is commonly used when rallying folk together and encouraging them to carry on. But what does it really taste like? Has anyone ever truly tasted Freedom or been Free?
One wonders what freedom is and how you become free. Do you have to fight in a war and win to be free? Do you have to stand up against wrong doing to be free? Do you have to stop a bully to be free? Do you have to be a christian to be free? Must one have millions of dollars? I have so many questions about what freedom could be and I’m sure I am not alone.
Growing up I would listen to all my elders telling me about the good old days and how they would do things I would never imagine possible. Things that are unheard of these days. How they would bunk school and catch a train to another town to go visit someone. Get in the car and just drive through the lands admiring what great country lay before them. As the sun would shine down on them they would fish all day with no worry of what tomorrow held. I would listen and try to imagine that feeling. What it must have been like to live in ‘The good old days’. Wondering why it all changed and why would I never get to experience that, but then it dawned on me, Freedom is what I make it to be. We taste freedom on a daily basis.
I am free when I decide to be free. When I stop letting my fears control my actions, but rather guide them. No one person can make my decisions for me, only I can!
I am free when I believe that something great is happening and, even though tomorrow may look bleak, something great will happen.
A man sitting in jail is free to think about what he has done, free to plan his future and make a change in his life.
Students are free to plan their futures and careers. Free to decide what they want in life.
Business owners are free to make decisions within for their business.
Employees are free to decide what job they want and who to work for.
Yes all these examples come with many difficulties, questions and may not be so simple, but the basics are that we have some freedom in everything we do. Every situation in life comes with freedom and only once we recognize those situations will we be empowered to make more of them.
So, just as I am free to write this, I encourage you to identify your freedoms and grow them into what you want them to be. Make lemonade out of lemons!
I would just like to make clear that everything I write is of my own opinion. They are not political or meant to spur on trouble. I simply hope to help people with what I share. Thanks for reading!
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