It is in yourself but locked
It’s a proactive state of existence. It's an intense feeling of need for creation. I see it that way.
The real question is: How do we feel freedom?
The first thing, or the first main activity that I do when I wake up, is writing. I sit, play the music, and start writing. Most of the time, I write without any structured plan or a goal. I don’t have guidelines or any external borders on my writing. I write my thoughts no matter what are they or how they are coming on the page. I just write.
This morning, I wrote many thoughts on personal freedom and what it can be. I surprised myself with the ideas I had, but none of them seemed right to me.
After she arrived, the girl went out to enjoy the beautiful landscape of the countryside. She saw that the vocality of the place was so inspirational. It seems that this place where the green colour is most used, and the mountains in front of her, which were very proudly standing, is a place where freedom has its own kingdom. However, her internal issue was the need to understand if the freedom she felt in the moment was caused by the place she was in or if the freedom was totally in herself.
Can it be both?
When we write, as I do almost every morning, without any plan or goal, we feel free.
The place where I write is usually indoors, and I don’t see the mountains and green fields like the girl does in most of my writings. But because I had many opportunities to see places like this girl had seen, I can imagine.
So, I think. Do we unlock the feeling of freedom?
When we craft something with our own hands and mind, as a post-emotional state, we feel happiness. No matter how long we feel it, Now, we know what happiness is.
It is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
Is it something similar to the feeling of freedom?
I think maybe. As we explore the outside world, we explore the feelings that the outside world is making to us. Now, let’s say we saw something so incredible and inspirational to us that we feel very intense motivation to do something. In my opinion, congratulations, you just unlocked the feeling of freedom.
Freedom is a feeling that is somewhere very deep in ourselves. It needs to be discovered. We can do that by exploring beautiful and free places, free from infrastructure, from people, from everything. We need to see the mirror of the freedom of those places in order to see the freedom in ourselves. Nature is a great model to us. It teaches us how to be free and how to not be dependent on external things as we, humans, are to nature.
I will try to give you another way of thinking about unlocking the feeling of freedom.
Imagine you are a free diver. You have trained for a long time so far. You can hold your breath for long enough so you can dive deeper than the others around you. Now, as you are ready to dive, you take your long breath and jump in the water. You are diving. It’s such a wonderful experience, pushing your limits beyond. And, at one moment, you break your own record in diving. Now, in the dark, you see something. You saw the freedom. You felt the remoteness and the freedom in the water where you are now. You saw the mirror. Nothing is the same for you on the surface anymore. People are cheering for you and talking with you, but they don’t get what you just unlocked in yourself.
I understand. “What does it mean to feel freedom?” It is the most challenging subject of all of them.
But that doesn’t mean that we don’t need to sing aloud, be brave and take risks, climb higher, or run towards that feeling of freedom.
Oh, one more thing.
What will happen if you write the places where you have found the mirror of true freedom? How does it feel to unlock the freedom in yourself?
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