What it is to be free?

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth, it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”

― John Green, The fault in our stars.

Being free isn’t always about living alone in a new city or having a lot of wealth, surely that does play a major role in buying freedom or a sense of it. We can have a lot of cash and a public hero but still not be free like Nelson Mendala or Imran Khan. I think freedom is having the ability to make a change like America or the Saudis do. Many people in jails are more free than people wandering in the world. The only way to be free in this world would be to slaughter every other human being and species till you are the only living creature or just die.

But it is good to have limited freedom. Know that we are not capable of changing everything, only 1% of things to change. It makes those few things worthy. Otherwise, we all would be Dahmer, Javed Iqbal, or Pedro Lopez.

I love this quote, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

-Blaise Pascal