Personal side of mission life: three people on the edge in the middle of bush in West Africa

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Freedom

Are we free? The question is probing my mind from last few months. Freedom has a huge connotation for some who do not have it in absolute basic necessities. But the question comes, are we free in a real terms. Look at us, we think, we do, and we behave in certain way. We dislike so many things around us but we are not free to make choices, we are stuck in this vicious circle of dependency. In the morning we are dependant on Coffee, in office technology, in general electricity list goes on. Agree that these all are to ease and comfort our lives, but if the perspective takes the other side, we find ourselves heavily dependant on these things we almost are slaves.

3 Comments:

Blogger Chiara said...

For me recently dependent only means husband, so I'm just trying to understand how long will it take to update my status in UN burocray...I think I'm becoming a paranoid I only see life now in burocratic terms

10:57 AM

 
Blogger Naho said...

We are not free, not even in real terms. We have family members and friends and our own concience to take care, which kind of prevent us from make absolute freedom from our life. But come to think of it, those things that we depend on is, for most people, what make life worth living. In fact, some of the buddist monks think the goal of their training is to attain the "absolute freedom", and despose their asset and live subsistant life in mountains... they may have freedom in the end, but that's not the life I want at the moment....

8:16 AM

 
Blogger Chiara said...

infact, I totally agree...!Is really a life free from passion what we should aim to?Once we are free from passions, what do we have...

10:22 AM

 

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