Freedom

Freedom of choice: God's greatest gift to mankind; the one attribute that sets him apart from all of God's other creations.

How does man recognise this freedom or know that it is really there? With the existence of things such as fate and destiny, how do we know that the choices we make are truly free?

Can we change destiny? Do we shape the future, or does it shape us? What's so good about freedom?

God alone knows.

If you're destined to die tomorrow, you will die tomorrow. No matter what you do, there is no changing that fact, correct?

So why try to do anything? Are we destined to commit ourselves to striving for freedom or can we choose to give that away?

What is this thing we call freedom of choice anyway? How does it set us apart from angels or satan?

What say have we over our lives? How much of what we do is executed out of our own true free will?

Temptations, dreams and wishes have always made themselves our general fuel to move. People all have their inner drives.

Does having desires eliminate freedom of choice?

Desires push you constantly in a single direction. Driving you to a single end much like how a road leads a car to a single direction.

So your choice is to either follow the road or break away from it.

Can you make that choice? Or perhaps you'll find yourself with absolutely no say in this at all.

Delving deep down within yourself, will you find that freedom? How does it feel to be truly free?

Perhaps true form of freedom exists in the form of indecision.

Indecision marks a lack of drive or biasness. The indecisive can make a choice either ways. More so than those who are driven. Then again, the indecisive are rarely able to make a quick choice. Always limited by their lack of will. Always stuck.

Is that freedom?

One way or another, we are boxed in. There always seems to be one factor or another that seems to influence our everyday decision.

Influence. That is the keyword, isn't it? Influences may exist but the choice is still yours to make.

You may stray off the beaten road but that would mean you have to walk through the underbrush. Ordeals may snag onto you and pull you down. It's up to you to choose to battle on or give in. You may have your freedom of choice, but that freedom is one with a limit. Stray too far and you'll find yourself in the lion's den.

Choice brings consequence. Freedom simply means you get to choose that consequence.