The Avian Privilege

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Freedom;

What is it really?

All I know is that with it, one is powerful. I also know that humanity yearns it because without it what is success? What I am coming to learn is that it’s also relative. The world views freedom differently; Slaves yearn freedom from their masters, hostages from their captors, invalids from their diseases and the world from a lot of evils.

There’s also the space that some teenagers “need” from their parents, the ability to love whomever you want and the freedom to eat whatever you want whenever you want to.

You see, freedom is vast. On a scale of 1-10, it can hold 1 or infinity. If it were an equation, maybe Einstein would describe it as one with many variables but one obvious outcome; control. Control gives power and with great power comes great responsibility.

Enough about the freedom we want. I want to talk about the freedom we need. A suppressed freedom that has a master and needs to be freed. A freedom that is held back unknowingly and one that possesses too much power. One that’s within and around us; in every race, nation, community, village and individual. It would be easier if I gave it a name, but even if I wanted to, I couldn’t. I myself don’t know it. All I know is that it’s one that when fully embraced creates beautiful success stories. Everyone has it, everyone feels it and some frequently push it away. Some work with it and do amazing things, others, well others silence the voice that speaks for it.

Suddenly, all I want to do is find this freedom and set it free. I want to let it breathe through me like the wind. I want to move with it and do what it tells me and maybe together we can be in control of our fates.

And maybe, just maybe be great!