Freedom to me would be…
Everybody that day spoke about independence, the freedom
struggle and the liberty that we possess today.
I wondered
what freedom really meant to me…
I
definitely walked without any fear of rogues or someone coming and jailing me
without a reason. Our freedom fighters had fought against a lot of wrongs so
that our generation enjoys the freedom of thought, expression and religion.
Our great
leader, Rabindranath Tagore’s quote viz.
“Where
the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
, Has been achieved of course. But talking about a specific
individual what does freedom mean I wondered...
My inner self Miss
evil kept telling Miss angel those
crazy ideas that I had always wanted to do, some of which included yelling out
loud in the night in the middle of the road, Commenting loudly with my friends
in the theatre and a lot that way (I know they do sound stupid). But miss angel had always intervened
thinking about the freedom of the society.
Speaking
about my age, what about the freedom that the 12th grade students
are deprived of. As soon as a student reaches this grade in the science stream,
the Indian society imposes restrictions and asks them to sacrifice most of
their hobbies. The teachers are also of the opinion that we should be confined
to just bookish knowledge, any freedom of thought even in our language papers
are inhibited!!(And everybody does know the extent of our creativity of course
:P)
At
least my friends enjoy my freedom of thought when I put forth these expressions
and have a hearty laugh!!
The digital gadgets also to some
extent have made us as their slaves. We are so deeply addicted to them that we
cannot think of lives without them. I would say if I spend a day in the forest
without a single digital or modern substance and survive without Google and the
idiot box, I probably would enjoy every single minute that I have, AND THAT IS
WHAT I WOULD CALL FREEDOM!!! :-P :-P
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