HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY…..MY FELLOW INDIANS!!!!! Congratulations to each one of us on the 67th year of independence……of freedom…..Freedom???????? But this question hit my mind today that What does freedom really mean? Are we really free? Ok…lets go back…..When we were under the British rule, we were trapped, our thoughts, our ideas, our happiness, we were slaves???? Why slaves coz we knew we were unwillingly doing something that we did not approve of….We were doing it because we were forced to! Britishers came and started conquering us very gradually, conquering our economy….Initially this used to happen at a very superficial level and hence impact was not realized at the gross level…..but slowly the impact penetrated very locally and people started realizing that something is wrong? They did not like ‘the wrong’….they understood ‘its wrong….they fought for it…..Britishers opposed…they kept fighting till they got what they wanted…….and at last they were free…..free to believe their thoughts, free to do what they wanted to do……free to be themselves…….. Do we really know what it feels to be FREE…..Yes we know…..why am I asking this…of course I am free because nobody is ruling me, no third person is forcing me to do things, I am doing things that I want to I wish to…..But am I FREE…..think again…..No I doubt…..Y? Bcz I feel trapped, trapped bcz of some thoughts that don’t let me be myself, that don’t let me feel free!!!! What are these thoughts…..i need money for survival…..i need money to provide best to my family……I need money to buy things that would mean I am financially better…..i need to work……and work and work…..doesn’t make difference where I work….but I need to work wherever I am offered more money…more money…better life…better luxury….better facilities…..i just have to work to earn money…..I don’t care what is happening around me but I can’t let it affect my work….cz that gives me money. I hardly have time to know to see who I am…to understand what I want? How many of us really know what we want in life? Or how many of us know ‘ourselves’? I don’t want to talk about illiteracy, crime, politics that we have today. Of course that’s an issue? But those are still something that gets controlled externally, how about those things that are completely under our control….WE ourselves! Why don’t we sing aloud, dance in the rain, smell the earth, kiss the breeze, smile at a stranger, offer a hand, dream boldly, live our dreams, talk politely, listen carefully for long hours, meet our old friends, Don’t try to prove ourselves, don’t await appreciation, try to feel secured every second……Why do we do these things? A major part of our life is today revolving a lot around materialistic happiness, we study hard hardest in childhood to face the ‘competition’, to conquer the race, our parents give us the best for this and also because our fiend’s parents have done that? Why is winning so important? Winning is good but winning always in everything……is that right? Why don’t we have freedom to choose where we want to win? Who’s stopping us? ……and whoever’s stopping, why is that so important? Are we enslaved to something? Is our pride, ego enslaving us???? We grow up, go to college…guess the only time of our lives where we actually feel free to some extent at least……y? coz we choose our friends without having to think if that friend is beneficial or not? Cz we happily face the consequences of the good or bad decisions we take in those days, coz we believe in our thoughts, our dreams….Have you ever noticed, these collegietes are always tagged as ‘Joshile’ and are thought of like ‘some insane bunch of excited creatures who are yet to see the real world’. But that’s freedom….freedom to think and act (with responsibility)! And then we enter the ‘real world’ where we are taught to follow a protocol….. earn well, get married to suitable person, keep earning, get a house, get a car, give best amenities to children, international school, expensive gifts…..keep doing this so that people look up to you basis the luxuries you have? I mean…. what to do those are the parameters that decide success of a person today! Right? Character, nature??? How does that matter, we have learned to tweak it to so well to ‘fit’ in the best possible way in this world. To survive in this world, we all have worn a mask of our fake identity and are adapting to it! Trying to live with it with a smile! This ‘masked person’ is probably the one from whom we need independence today! Are we free? Why do we celebrate freedom? Just hoisting tri colour flag and remembering national leaders, freedom fighters, brushing our history portion….that independence celebration!!!! Won’t it be better if we reanalyze ourselves to see what’s trapping our freedom and take inspiration from our freedom struggle to overcome this daily struggle? Breathing air of freedom would be the day when each one of us would get up early in the morning with a smile looking forward for the day for the work in store and being excited about the work being done! Not worrying about ego, image, not being insecure about what people would think! Just being ourselves, knowing ourselves and being able to live with ‘ourselves’!!!!!!! Who am I to say this…..???? One among you all….but this thought struck me and till this thought strikes us….there is still hope to be free! The day this thought stops striking us we would probably fail to even understand from whom we need independence? I really wish to see India free once again!!!!!! Would we fight? HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!! “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” ―Jim Morrison “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” – George Orwell
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:15:28 +0000
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