FREEDOM

                                             Much has been said about this issue, lots of
people take this issue for granted and some even ridicule this issue. What is
freedom? It is (a gift of) choice to do what we want and when we want. Is this
important? Let us find out.

                                       I am
sitting in a park and decided for the next ten minutes I do not have freedom,
how you ask? I do not have the freedom to move, or talk or do anything other
than sit with my arms folded. How hard can it be?

                                          As I was sitting, in the second
minute or so, I developed an itch underneath my ears but I cant let loose my arms,
I don’t have the freedom to do so, I have to bear the itch hoping it will
subside, then I noticed a gang of red ants marching straight towards my leg but
I cant move my leg as I had no freedom to do so, I had to again hope that the
ants will take an another route.

                                          Thus 4 minutes passed by
without freedom, now I had an urgent need to urinate, but how can I, I don’t
have the freedom to do so, I had to suppress it all, 5 minutes have gone by,
for sometime, someone has been taking note of  my actions from behind the bushes, he emerged
all of a sudden, he had a big mustache, a black mole , a classic thief, he
stole my watch, my wallet and my gold ring, I wanted to fight back and call for
help but how can I, I had no freedom to do so.

                                      Thus I was mugged, can
anything worse happen than this, I have always been scared of dogs, now a dog
was on my proximity circle, It had a strange look, it came very close to my
legs, now it lifted one of its legs to answer its nature call on my leg, god
now I wish I can just say shoo to that dog, but how can I, I had no freedom to
do so.

                                        Seven
minutes have passed, seven minutes of misery, now I was glad at some human
company, two little kinder gardeners were playing around me, suddenly one of
them took out a black sketch and drew a mush on my lips, she also drew circles
around my eyes, I wanted to stop them and even beat the brat, but how can I, I
had no freedom, finally after some giggles they ran away.

                                       For the
next two minutes, the onlookers saw a strange sight, most were laughing and
some were pensive. Nine minutes, things cannot become any worse I thought then
all of a sudden, it started to rain, pitter patter rain drops all over me, I
cannot go for cover because I do not have this very important necessity called
freedom.

                                      Thus it ended, my 10 minutes with freedom, and
all of you know how much trouble I had gone through, if I had freedom none of
this would have happened to me, though all these were written hypothetically it
shows the value of freedom, it is the power to make things the way we want.

                                       Some of
you might have found this post freedom age sour, if you do then it only means
one thing, we have not used the freedom given to us properly…that’s all.