Free

According to Marriam Dictionary, the word freedom is defined as "the quality or state of being free". A further definition is  "the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action". 

Oh yes! Everyone loves freedom. However, can we really do so? If everyone does exactly as what is described then the whole world will be engulfed in chaos. Nobody will obey rules, they will go wild. Survival of the fittest will be the rule. Now, who wants to live in such barbaric and primitive world?

Some will say that I go to the extremes. Am I? Just look at the anarchy that occurs around you. When there is a disaster occurring, looting and robbing and killing begins since there is no law to restrain those who wants freedom to do whatever they want. You might say that it only happens to those who are lawless in nature not all the people does that. In saying so, you are neglecting the human nature.

When we are young, we are controlled by our parents. How many of you would say that you are the most obedient child in the family. You followed ever single commands by your parents. Admit it! Everyone of us will not want to comply to our parents' commands.

When we are teenagers, we have a mind of our own. This is the stage of rebellion. We are more bold in going against our parents' commands. We do not want to be bound by all the pressures of growing up. We hate being pressurized by peers to conform to the society or groups. We hate being a conformist. We want to be free to do what we wanted.

After we graduate, we have to find a job. Again we are thrown into another life of slavery. We have to be bound by the laws of the country, society, country, family even ourselves. Where is the freedom that we longed for. No wonder most of us would want to take holidays to have a break from all that.

Once we got children, our live of slavery is even greater. We toil day and night to ensure that our children are well taken care of. We have to let go of a lot of activities just to take care of them. How much relief if we could just get out of this situation just for a day.

At our old age, we lacks mobility that we have in our younger days. We are weak and feeble. Now we longed for the freedom of our youth. We cannot escape the ultimate fate - death. 

Now, some of us will be spared of some of that stages of life. None will actually escape all the stages. We are bound regardless by some rules that was imposed on us and there are little option for us to be free of it.

Does that means we don't have freedom? Well, there are, if it is within the bounds of the society we live in. We are free to do things that does not harm the country, the society,  the people and ourselves.

Many of us does not realize that there are many others that have much less freedom than us. Many people are restrained from speaking out against unjust restrictions on their speech, action and thinking. Simple thing like being allowed to drive a car can even be imposed on the female gender in some countries. These are the things that we should not be restricted. This is the freedom that these people want. It is not a freedom to do anything.