Freedom and Responsibility

Freedom though sounds very easy and liberating but freedom along with it brings responsibility, responsibility for actions and deed. Everyone of us wants to be free, without freedom we feel suffocated, a hardened criminal or someone who abuses that freedom is punished by curbing his freedom totally and kept in locked places. Jails and lockers are an example of that.

In our day to day life, to be free is to be totally responsible for everything we do. It appears that is why many of us choose to spread that responsibility over beliefs, ideas and systems; we choose to follow a certain order, either maintained and formulated by us or by someone else. It gives us a sense of belonging, a dodging of that self responsibility because a herd is involved in it, and what the herd does may be incorrect but at least you have numbers to support you i.e. support of partners in crime, you can always divide the blame so that no one in particular is responsible.

It seems to me that the moment you want to be free, you are free but its more convenient to be bound and feel secure. Freedom is not easy to handle, if you really don't know what to do or make of it, it can drive you nuts !

For How Long?

For how long are we going to hide our weaknesses under the mask of situations around? living under the false hope of doing a favour or a great sacrifice for something or somebody and try all our life to make others realize it? Till when are we going to keep suffering and suffering without realizing that we have always been free? there has been nobody to stop us other than ourselves..

Unless we felt something to be important can it be important? unless we found something to be painful can it be painful? does't everything includes me? without me what is left? if me is excluded where does our statements stand? For how long will we keep blaming others or everything else?

When are we going to accept the responsibilities without fear, without the fear of others, without the fear of anything else?

Can freedom be realized if we keep doing the same thing all over again? previously what we thought right we did and we are still doing what we think is right so what is the difference then? doesn't freedom means to be Free simply? To be free of everything, even our own thoughts which so called keep troubling us as if they are not ours! Can't we simply see that everything starts from us? even the thought of freedom starts and end in us so where does all this happen?

If something is troubling you then what should be checked, you or the situation? for you its trouble for others it may be fun so what is the real measure?

Shouldn't we ponder over all this rather than reacting always?