What is Freedom ?

What is freedom? Is it based on choice? Is it to do exactly what we like to do ?
Just wonder .

Freedom is 'me' getting up this morning, and deciding 'freely' what I will do today, where I will
go, what I will wear, what I will eat, who I will talk to, what I will buy, what time I will come
home tonight, who I will phone, what I will watch on tv, or listen to on the radio, etc.

Freedom's what you make of it on/in your own space and time...

Please read carefully...........The question is what is freedom ...not what you can make of it .Of what ? .

That, too, would be a freedom.

Man has built in himself images as a fence of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man’s thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all humanity. So he is not an individual.

Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man’s pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choice less awareness of our daily existence and activity.
JK

To be truly free, one must die. I our society (any society) freedom is only allowed within socially acceptable parameters. Try stepping outside those parameters and see just how free you really are. Today, it seems, that the only freedom we have is what to buy, what pleasure or experience you have to pay for. About the only thing that is truly free is a walk in the woods or on the beach as long as you don't have to drive there.

Freedom is a feeling - which to describe to one who has not known it would be much like explaining the colour purple to a blind man.

You could say that freedom is a birthright, we are born free. It is a state of mind. It is not something that can be bought or won through insurrection. Freedom is a detachment from the arbitrary rules imposed on societies by those who are afraid of freedom, afraid of those who do not adhere to the rules, afraid of their own lack of control.

Ruling elites are always convinced of imminent insurrection - apprehended or real. This is true even in our Kingdom of Canada. How else would you explain the hundred of millions of dollars being spent on new prisons when the crime rates are dropping?

Surprised nobody's posted the line from the song "Me and Bobby McGee." "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose," which I think is about as good a definition as any. Any dictionary will tell you it means something like being without restraints or rules or restrictions on your movements and behaviour, but if you really don't have any of those, then you also have no serious relationships with anyone, no commitments, no responsibilities, none of the things that give life meaning and purpose.