A Deliverable

Freedom is like eternal satisfaction: to those who ponder the concept, the realization of the idea lays forever on the horizon of their vision. Total freedom is unknown, because we are always constrained by the ropes of other people’s opinions and ideas. They limit us from achieving a world in which we may do anything we choose with no repercussions, sheltering us from the anarchy of limitlessness.

We are protected by laws, which give us the ability to live our lives in relative safety, but limit those who, purposefully or not, may do us harm.

We are encaged by social constructs, which provide guidance for our choices in action, words, and presentation, yet prevent us from fully allowing ourselves to run free without the threat of social condemnation.

Even if the laws encroach themselves upon our freedoms, it is not their content which may give them the facade of being just, if such a concept even exists. How we view our state of being free is purely a result of how these decisions of what freedoms we should be granted are made. How we view our state of being free is a result of decisions made by people, those who rarely include us. If we are not able to make choices for ourselves, without the interference imposed upon us, can we ever be free?

But a world with true freedom, is a world in which we must also worry about the decisions other people make, decisions that may possibly bring us harm.

It is for this reason that, while we cannot be free without anarchy, but in anarchy we are not free, freedom is like the horizon. Its true form lurks out of sight, and often out of mind, and it is from a great distance that we do not have the clarity to see what truths it will hold.