The freedom that matters

            What is freedom? or what is it to be free? We use the term for many reasons in many ways. We often employ it in our daily interraction with others so much as it has lost its rightful meaning. We use it sometimes as a safety valve, yet we don't really practice freedom.
             The concept of freedom is as old as the human existence. it has always been at the paramount of all struggles and somehow the justification of much violence. history has shown to illustrate the different moments when freedom has been the reason for war, battle, fight and insurrection. There are always two camps involve in this movements; the oppressors and the oppressed, the masters and the slaves, the authority and the citizens just to name the few important groups. The collectivity of individuals come together to claim what they consider being given by God and inherent to the being. The founding Fathers thought better to include this inalienable human right in the Constitution.
             Now the freedom that matters more is the freedom you possess under any given circumstance. It comes down to liberty. It is a sort of liberty one has when everything else is taken away. Even if you are part of the group of oppressed, slaves or the citizens, there are still a number of things you can do or to put it literally you have a liberty to chose among many options. For example living is a choice, same as eating or breathing,
What is the point here?What we are today is the result of the many choices we made in the past. Whether we are where we wanted to be or not, it is because we freely made some choices that were conducive to where we are now. there are almost always different alternatives to every situation, each one bearing its consequences .
              But the good new is we still possess that freedom to change our situation around. It is imposible to go back in time to chance any choice made, it is history. we can revisite it, we can learn from it, most importantly it is better to learn not to look at today through the lens of yesterday, which makes the promise of tomorrow all the more magical. It is in our reach to change the course of our lives today by making decisions and choices different than those that led us here today. It is possible to choose where we think will be a better direction for our future, and this can be done whether the government in power is democratic or republican or independant, even if the country is in great recession or deep depression. Bottom line is we have the power(freedom) to influence the remaining years of our lives, jim Rohn puts it this way, the same wind blows in us all , it is up to us to set sail right.