Freedom

Its more than 60 years that India has gained Independence and what we call "Freedom". While I could discover a commonly predominant syndrome in the gentry nowadays called " i dont have time syndrome", my grey cells were kind of forced to dive deeper and do a little bit of analysis of the extent of freedom in our little common lives.

You must be thinking ,aumm..wats this syndrome all about..Well, lemme be little elaborate. India is supposed to be a culturally and spiritually rich place as emphasized in many pieces of verse including Robin Sharma's "The Monk who sold his ferrari". Everybody used to be warm, cultured , peaceful showing real instances of hospitality, we used to have time to stand and stare, stop n hear. Now we have entered a Next G era, wherein often being proposed for a cup of coffee our tongue in conjunction with vocal chord comes out with "ohh I dont have time to die even"!! which is so true. Most of us have entered a labyrinth wherein we gotta keep rolling in and out for earning our livelihood and we hardly come out of it, mostly because consciously or subconsciously we do not want to.. We have many reasons to be cited like "we are ambitious", "we need money" , "we are making our children's future secure", etc etc.. But do we really know what we mean ? Do our ambitions come with the vow of not spending time with our family and friends ? Are we not putting up lame excuses to our kids while leaving them in day care that we are earning for them ? I might sound quite rogue, but thats quite true.

Now, lets come back to our core topic of freedom and play a game of identifying instances of freedom in our own lives. You are free to select your own questions from the following:

A. Am I having the freedom of choosing my own time to work ?
B. Am I having the freedom to dream of anything I want in life?
C. Am I having the freedom of spending as much time as I want with my family and friends?
D. Am I having the freedom of exercising my sense of creativity and innovation at every stage I want ?
E. Am I having the freedom of serving my parents, my creators to the fullest extent and spend quality time with them?

Well, if I look at myself I do not !! All the answers to the above question would be "Not me, its my employer who has the liberty!" Its quite unfortunate indeed that we are rushing towards something we ourselves are oblivious of, we do not have time to introspect of what we really want in life and whats the prime objective !! There's only one life we gotta live and why not live it to the fullest.

Its high time to take a look back and recalculate, explore the best means of living our lives. A balanced life is not rocket science or not as complicated as launching a spaceship! We need to earn back our freedom and fight for it. We just need to trust ourselves - I have read somewhere that certain things cant be shown with colored pencils on graphs , but are nevertheless real - trust is one of them ! Winston Churchill in one of his famous quotes has said "Sure I am that this day, now, we are the masters of our fate. That the task which has been set us is not above our strength. That its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause, and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us".

I am on my track towards salvation - try to reincarnate myself :)) Freedom is what I am praying for .. Peace and contentment what I am looking for ... Justice is what I am cultivating ! ...