The Essence of Freedom

Life is too difficult and too risky in the eyes of many. By contrast, others are these proponents of a virile existence, demanding great courage and providing great pride, so that they are all set to leave the coziness in their house in order to scale Mount Everest and breast the elements for the sheer joy of conquering the summit. Whatever the view, the nature of things remains unchanged. There are principles, prerequisites and duties, and limitations, possibilities and impossibilities. Until doom, one can take them and make the best of them, much to people pleasure and honor, or you can do exactly the opposite and suffer the consequences. The choice between these two options is the very essence of freedom. As for me, I have no use for your next choice: a self-inflicted misery that is without the slightest doubt a pitiable way of life.

The very first option, on the other hand, is a gratifying and honorable option that I find persuasive, though faulty. It’s applicable to any situation encountered in the course of these residing venture, provided you isn’t unfortunate to the purpose of being hopelessly unable to cope. The selection of the applicability corresponds with the array of types adaptability. It’s normally considerable, regardless of the inclination to cling to old pleasurable customs even after they have become impracticable or unsuitable, because of some change of situation. One could be weaned from these customs onto new gratifying customs, in the same manner for a baby could be weaned onto solids. The longer the change is important and you is reluctant to adapt to it, the longer the weaning process is difficult and long in creating the desired result. Again, the only option worthy of ones focus consists in carrying matters as they come and making the most of them, for ones sake and that of all others. The opposite is absurd and harmful, a deplorable waste of humankind.

Overall, the power to dwell at a well-adjusted and high-minded manner and the freedom to opt for this manner in preference to the alternate, untrue, manner would be the bases of the life one assembles. The exercise of the power does not necessarily imply a principled resignation toward the status quo. One may come face to face with a remediable bad that calls for a struggle to cure it, effectively and rightly. If that’s the instance, residing in a well-adjusted and high-minded manner entails accepting the demand for this struggle and the means of waging it, and without effort to attain ones finish. Ills really are a test of will, an chance to show dignity.

They’re also a chance to research and evaluate ones inside resources. Over the years, I’ve enhanced my situation and particularly my attitude, whose negativity has been the most unfavorable and improvable aspect of my own life. In so doing, I’ve found my own true richness. Nature has endowed me with a flexible capacity for joy within the boundaries of my varying reality. According to my own observations, this capacity isn’t unusually great, compared with that of people. I’m even tempted to believe it is somewhat lagging behind. Eleven decades and to adapt in victory to my handicap isn’t a effort for the Guinness Book of World Records!

Throughout that moment, the riddle of life had less or more baffled me. Yet, laboriously, with the support of several novels and more thought, I’d managed by degrees to clear it up, enough to locate a meaning for my entire life. This riddle is comparable to some mire: The lower you go through it, the deeper you get into it. Maybe believers are generally untalented from the art of living and their saving grace is that their dogged determination to redeem this deficiency of ability by dint of studying the individual soul. Amusingly enough, these untalented individuals are often perceived as talented, when they’ve seen the light and revealed it using the many mirrors of a elaborate evaluation, after a tentative and prolonged hunt from the dark.

This kind of overcompensation is typical of people who experience problems in a certain area, however, refuse to acknowledge defeat. Although a few fare well in this field having a minimum of effort, they try hard to overcome these difficulties, with the result that they tend to fare better than the others. Their redeeming attribute is their willpower in the face of their shortcoming, they use as an excuse to redouble their efforts, much less an excuse to throw in the towel. This is really a recipe for a worthy success. They subject and transcend themselves, and consequently essentially turn things round.