Isha Gupta Class 9th , Nath Valley School, Aurangabad
FREEDOM Freedom, a simple word given to a topic that can be understood even if one lives for infinity... Infinity, another such word. These are words we use daily, but when you think of it, every definition fells wrong, something missing or everything wrong or everything right according to the rules but unrelatable. According to me freedom is a deception we ourselves in every day and night. We say everyday “we live in a free country and are free to speak and do whatever we like”. Is that really the case? According to me, no. Freedom is when you can shut down anything and everything that annoys and disturbs you. When you find some song emotional you just stop listening, but how can you shut down what is happening to you. We can have had freedom of the ideal world since a long time, freedom from social bindings, stereotypes and expectations is being worked on, many have got it too, but the freedom that is nearly impossible (nearly impossible for a living person) to have is from the things and thoughts made from ourself. You cannot shut down the voice in your head constantly annoying you all life no matter how hard you try.
Ever heard two sides of your body battle, not brain and heart but two sides of brain (brain mostly wins over heart in my case, so I stopped calling that a battle). One side of my brain advises me to act on my impulse, speak whatever comes in your head and that there is no such thing as consequence, while the other side protests that what will everyone around me think, what if I hurt someone, respecting others is necessary, at least live up to the borderline of expectation from parents and teachers and the list goes on and on. Both sides are correct (I do not have the write to define something as correct or wrong, it will always be best option in someone’s list and worst mistake in other’s) have their own points, but you always go with the second side. The reasons are complicated, the best I could find is that first one’s advice can be followed in an ideal world but second one is best in the real world. All this is for those who have gained freedom from social bindings and relations (all except parental, both ways). If that is not the case then the monk in the temple and the neighbor aunt with binoculars fixed on your window along with the gossip gang of school already suppressed the first side without even letting it express his innocence. NOVEMBER 2020 - 011
