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Free to be

Ive struggled all my life to find freedom, only to have found and lost it many times. Life changes so do we and our concept of freedom. We can say that we are always free as long as we are living, held and obstructed only by that which makes us humane. Only we as individuals may set boundries that obstruct our freedom, it's a matter of how much one individual is willing to put out to achieve his concept of freedom and if at all he knows it, for there are ones that never even look.

The path to freedom always lies within oneself, you may never find freedom in the things you can own. The only way one can see it in that which stands before him is if it is expressed onto it.

My Freedom

In this life I've always found ways to seek for freedom, there were grim days where hope was hiding itself, yet the darkness which it hid in never stood for long, eventually one sheds light with the sunrise of a new day.

Sometimes it is hard to see past the illusions that other create for you, sometimes one might fall pray to them, thinking freedom lies within the created imagery of others, yet that imagery is there only for that one individual to understand who he is not.

I know I am free to be as I want in my core, it's all a matter of the bars I've placed for myself and how high one needs to jump to reach them.
My freedom has no form, it is wield, it is adventurous and mystical, it can only be seen once you know you are living it. My freedom lies in the hopes of a better day, it's essence swirls in the core of the soul and can not be seen or expressed only in actions. It is the drive of my life, it is the fuel to my suffering, the one that weeps tears from the eyes of the soul, the one that was given to me only to be locked by the self sustained suffering of humanity.

My freedom is life and the bars I place onto it is my destiny, the bars that lock it, only so it may gather force to burst once open, blowing away any expectations in its way.

We were born to be free yet for some odd reasons we as a whole decided to try enslaving each other for personal leisure, yet even that doesn't stop us from being truly free as we always have choice.

There is no gain in life without hardship, although hardship isn't a restriction, it is there so we can value our achievements, it makes freedom even sweeter and allows us to fully appreciate it once we reach our end destination. Thought there is one thing that renders hardship more pleasant and that is acceptance and peace of heart.

Freedom is not obtained, it is expressed, it is life, it is you.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Kevyn Aucoin

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Be Free