What makes you feel most free?
Posted on Sep 5th, 2009
by
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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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
“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.
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).
Perfect, in my eyes. thank you for this. : )
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.