Free Like A Bird

A very clichéd idiom if you ask me. But is this phrase even true. Is it justified to consider a bird flying in the air to be free.Freedom has been defined by wiki as the right to act according to ones will without being held up by the power of others. According to this definition even a bird is not free. There is always a fear, an uncertainty. The fear of death. The uncertainty of survival. A bird is still an animal. But for us this fear is not just limited to an individual, it exists for every single person we care about. For as long as the world has been in existence, their have always been power hungry people who have tried to influence the naïve and illiterate. Even though the world has awakened and seen I don’t know how many struggles of independence we are not free in the true sense. There are still people who do not have minds of their own. They are not stupid. They are just easily led and the power hungry have always been successful in exploiting them and taking advantage of them. Literacy does make us free in many ways. It allows our thoughts to flow. But literacy cannot make your decisions for you. These people who are influenced by others usually wait for others to make decisions for them and end up screwing things up badly. Even while picking up an outfit what is the necessity to think about whether other people are going to like it or not. Youth comes for a short period of time. This is the only time a person gets to be crazy without any regrets, then why do we spend so much time dwelling on what others will think. Because we are not FREE. We are bound. There are a million things that hold us back. Our family, our friends, our colleagues, our loved ones.
Even though the world has moved towards nuclear families, how many Indian families are actually nuclear. Maybe people don’t live in the same house, but our decisions depend on each other. Is it because of love or respect or is it just for the feeling of acceptance and approval. The “I have a dream” speech by Martin Luther fills me with hope that the world will be free one day. That we will have the freedom to make our own choices and that the bird will actually be free.

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