It might mean the liberty to do what one wants, but truly it depends from person to person. Freedom is something that everybody wants in someway or the other. Well I am not talking about those 6 Right to Freedom guaranteed to every citizen, but the one that actually and truly affects the person, physically, mentally & psychologically.
Who doesn’t want to laugh freely when a joke is cracked? Who doesn’t want to shout at someone or slap someone so hard for insulting him or her in public? Who doesn’t want to cry when there is actually a crisis?
Yes, there are times when one wants to do all these things but somewhere in his mind there is a restriction. The restriction of losing something after the freedom that one has. Everybody would love to laugh on joke cracked but if it involves the person himself or herself, his girlfriend or boyfriend, or any relationship that he might lose after that one piece of joke, he is restricted.
One would immediately want to shout or slap that person who had insulted him or her in public unless and until that person is your friend who must have just said things without thinking, or probably the person you love the most but who just don’t care for how you feel. Is this freedom?
Everybody is emotional and it is very easy to tell a person that one does not have emotions. How would a girl or boy feel who wants to show how strong he or she is but he or she just can’t because the people around him or her may not accept him or her like that.
I know after reading this anybody would say that one always has a freedom to walk out. But is it actually easy. Those people you live with for such a long time, you love them, they too loved you in someway; is it easy to just walk out of it? Some might be thinking about self-respect here. But when our parents embarrass us because they are actually the ones who know the real ‘us’, where does that self-respect go then?
Anyways, all I can say is that everybody does have the freedom to do anything but they should atleast try to put themselves in the other persons shoes, just to understand for a moment how he or she would feel if inspite of having the freedom to walk out of a relationship one just can’t. Maybe it might stop you next time from making a joke of another person or insulting him or accusing him of having no self-respect because there might be a very big restriction in that persons mind to respect your freedom and to accept everything you say with a smile. But that nowhere means that he or she does not have freedom.
