Freedom? More Like Slaves to Habit

The beginning of July can be a magical experience when it comes to, not just kids, but grown adults, as well. Streams and flashes of a garden variety of colors swarm the night sky, giving off loud booms, like canons during a war. We are reminded of what our young country had to do to become what it is today... free. But are we really free?

Our country may be free from the tyrant fingers of Great Britain, but it is apart of a bigger whole. I’m talking about planet, Earth. Believe it or not, America, as well as every other county or landmass, obeys the planet’s own set of rules. And Earth is the most unrelenting tyrant there ever was.

A rule that governs us, that we are enslaved to, is the rule of time being the only constant. Everything of this world is constantly changing, evolving into something new. There is no escaping it. However, humans are born to rebel, especially us, Americans. That is how we became “free.” By rebelling against the British. So, we forget about time and take it for granted. As a result, we humans have become creatures of habit.

We go to sleep on Sunday nights with a sharp pain we all share. The same sickness of having to wake up and go to work the next day. Because we did it again, we got used to the weekend. So we fall asleep.

Then wake up and can smell the routine next to the French roast coffee brewing. And proceed to put ourselves on autopilot. We take the same way to work, Park on the same spot even if they’re not designated then relax on auto.

We reflect back to when we were children and content with life because we were comfortable in our habit. But then came puberty. Change was among us and it was terrifying. We hold that same fear today as adults. We fear change. When we should embrace it.

Refusing change is like paying for a debt you don’t owe or paying for a free show. We don’t want that now.

Because if we continue with the same old things we’ve always done, we will always get what we’ve always gotten. Some of that for us is pain. But you can’t remove the pain if yo don’t remove yourself from the situation.

Habit and insanity go hand in hand. Insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting different results.

We need to embrace change. And change our habit. Otherwise we will never truly live and enjoy our young, beautiful country.

—J. A. Allison