When I was a child, I used to think about the luxuries and
comfort of elder people. I used to think especially during examination time
that they don’t have to give any examinations and they can sleep whenever they
want and they can watch television according to their wish. Sometime my mother
read my thoughts and said, “There was a time when I also need to gave
examinations but I performed well and that’s why now I am free from
examinations. You will also have same comfort once you will pass all your
examinations.” But as a child I always wonder why not now? Why later? But I
showed them I agreed with her. But in mind, I always had doubt. During that
time I wanted to become free from examinations and studies so that I could
play with friends all day, watch television etc. I often felt jealously with
friends who had finished their examinations while my examinations were still
remains to complete.
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Many people may have same feeling during their childhood as I
felt during my childhood about which I mentioned above. But even after getting
free from that situation of childhood, are we really free? After completing
studies, unemployed wants a job, those who have job want to get better job,
those who have better job want to become a manager, those who are manager want
to get much higher level managerial responsibilities. People think that they
will enjoy more happiness by getting freedom from current state and that’s why
they always dream of next higher level. Freedom is processes to get rid of things
on which you are depend; it can be stated as process to remove those decencies.
Street vendors think of their own shop so that they don’t need to go from one
street to another in order to sell their goods. A shopkeeper think of bigger
shop so that he/she can hire servants so that he/she don’t need to bring required
good from the place it is placed in shop to counter. And so on.
Everybody wants to free from certain things in life in order
to fulfill the desire to live a better life. This quest of complete freedom leads
human race from Stone Age to current scientific era. But will this quest ever
end? I think no. We cannot remove all our dependency. Because getting freedom
from one thing makes us to depend on another new thing. Freedom from letters to
communicate makes us depend on mobile phones.
We are like that thirst traveler in desert who thought by
seeing a mirage that “ultimately I got water” but when traveler reach that place
he/she find one more mirage and this same cycle repeated until he/she die. People
are searching from complete freedom but nobody can find that like the thirsty
traveler could not find water. Life is an eternal search of freedom.
Look into yourself, you will find you are already free.
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