Live Free

Everyone is born with the rigth to be free. It’s a birthright. However the pursuit of freedom is something that is still happening today.

We can see this since ancient times, when underpriviledged classes, prisoners, people subdued by stronger people, were all enslaved and exploited to do heavy work, among others.

The Woman’s struggle for freedom, personal affirmation and equal rights as Man, is still present nowadays.

Freedom of expression, of expressing ourselves freely without being censored for manifesting our own opinions, still causes many conflicts.

The discovery of contraceptives was one of the catalysts for Sexual Revolution, also known as Sexual Liberation, to take place, which came to change behaviours related to sexuality and human relationships in general. Still has, however, some battles ahead to change many conservative minds.

To be free, what does it mean? Free from what, exactly? And what do we need to achieve this freedom? What’s the purpose?

To be a Free Being has for each one of us a different meaning. For me, To Be Free is being able to express myself creatively through communication, both written and spoken, and the arts in general. For others, To Be Free is to be financially independent, or even have their own business or their own space. The important thing is to realize is that in the area of life where each one of us needs to be free, is where we will find our happiness. Because that’s where we can be ourselves, true, spontaneous. That’s where we can really shine.

The need for freedom happens because there is an oppression, repression, limitation, something that imprisions us, that prevents us from being ourselves, from acting according to our will, from being spontaneous, from moving freely, from flowing with life.

When freedom is needed, it’s because we reached a limit, a wall, that prevents our expression, our movement, our freedom of movement.

When we speak of freedom, it’s implied a limitation. And it’s this limitation that is necessary to perceive, identify, to procede to its elimination.

Sometimes there’s a fear of freedom itself. This, when reached, we acquire responsibility, that is, freedom and responsibility to make our own decisions, to follow our own will, and accept the consequences, good or bad ones. When these decisions are made with no conciousness, results can be very unsatisfying, even catastrophic.

In any case, moderation is needed. Freedom with no limits, no responsibility, no order, no conciousness, falls into the opposite extreme, the misuse of the freedom we are entitled to and which can harm, not only ourselves but also others. “One individual’s freedom ends where another’s begins”, when interferes with the space of another individual.

Freedom, responsibility and conciousness, should always go hand in hand.

Mankind has as its main goal evolution, which happens with the expansion of its consciousness. It’s a movement that happens outwards, like when we have our arms wide open. When limits are reached, internal walls that prevent expansion from happening, the feeling that comes first is of obstruction, which then leads to the need of getting free. What is seen as freedom of expression, sexual freedom, etc., is really an internal freedom that happens inside an individual and extends through a group of individuals, through a generation. When this wall is eliminated, expansion happens, evolution happens. The need to be free is really a desire for expansion, for internal growth, for evolution of mankind itself. Evolution happens when we break through our internal walls, which prevents us from being ourselves and from flowing with the natural rhythm of life. Achieving freedom allows evolution to happen.

It’s up to each one of us, to free ourselves from our own limitations, and thus, we are contributing to the evolution of mankind.