THE ULTIMATE FREEDOM

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” — Voltaire

It has been many years since the planet has gone through as turbulent and challenging time as we are experiencing today. While it might have started with the pandemic, it is now manifesting in global unrest for the unending inequality present in so many people’s lives — prejudice, discrimination, and cruel judgment. The planet is being shaken and stirred. Of course, this is rightfully unsettling and painful. But, if you listen to that longing in your heart, it is also uplifting and hopeful. It means humanity is being awakened, becoming conscious.

The world is crying out for freedom. And I say about time!

Of course, freedom can mean many things to many people. By definition, freedom is “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.” This means freedom of speech, expression, or to worship as we see fit. More than that, it means freedom to be who we are, live as we want to live, believe as we choose to believe, regardless of color, race, sex, or political or socio ideology.

But, if you read the last word in that definition, it also says we have the “freedom to think.” And if you combine that definition with the dictionary’s second meaning of freedom: “a state of not being imprisoned or enslaved,” we begin to see that real freedom is in…