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What makes you feel most free?

Posted on Sep 5th, 2009 by tinkonthebrink : serendipitous researcher tinkonthebrink
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 05, 2009:

I think I don't understand this question. Freedom implies freedom from something and that seems pointless to me before I even get started. Freedom from what I've decided has its hold on me? Freedom from myself? I don't know how to let go of all of it and not care anymore. If I jumped out of an airplane I would feel free for a few minutes, but if I were wearing a parachute I would immediately start thinking "geez, I hope this thing opens" and then there would be much less freedom right away. I create the absence of freedom for myself and I think that serves me in the day to day way. The care and the planning and the anticipation keep me alive from one day to the next.  I take care of a life I love, people and animals and gardens and sweet things I love and treat nicely, and I have no desire to be free of them. One day, in one moment, all of it will be gone for me and I hope that in that moment I feel free and jump without a parachute. But until then, I'm sticking with my caretaking and the lack of freedom that comes with it. I think if you get to be here in a body you trade off freedom for the experience and I'm all about the experience of this.
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Jane : riversong
44 minutes later
Jane said

Well, I am totally with you on this….It is what it is! and what could be more amazing than that! 
lots of love and care taking too
Jane

Laurie : Energy Worker
about 2 hours later
Laurie said

“The care and the planning and the anticipation keep me alive from one day to the next.  I take care of a life I love, people and animals and gardens and sweet things I love and treat nicely, and I have no desire to be free of them.”

I completely and totally resonate with this statement.  Thank you for sharing it.

Jamilah : Creative Thinker
about 9 hours later
Jamilah said

Interesting. But I once had a college professor who said true freedom isn't freedom from, but freedom to. Freedom to jump out of an airplane if you want (but hopefully with a parachute).

about 14 hours later
Gia said

Jeannie this resonated with me as;
you ARE Free to JUST BE! Si?

Whatever 'the BE' Be! 
belly laugh



Laura : graceriver
about 22 hours later
Laura said

Perfect, in my eyes. thank you for this. : )

Mamakat : Voyager
1 day later
Mamakat said

Tink, lovely.  Someone once described loving life/someone else/something else as willingly putting yourself in a cage.  Their loving you back is their leaving the door to the cage wide open.  Thanks for this.

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