Is violence “out there” different from me?
Switch on the TV, read the newspaper, social media report it, people talk about it - endless information and news on discrimination, violence, wars, economic problems, crimes, climate crisis. No matter what it is, there is always an abundance of news out there to fill our days with fear and terror. Seems we humans just can get any peace at all. The tragedy of it all is that we are too engulfed in our own little separate lives that we fail to see the relationship we have with the world and each other….
On freedom, fighting, and love
So, what is freedom? Humans have been fighting for freedom since probably the beginning of time. Freedom can refer to many things, such as freedom to go to watch a football game; freedom to choose what career we would like to have; freedom to choose which restaurant to eat at tonight; freedom to choose where we want to live; freedom to choose a person to befriend. We can define freedom in many ways. We seem so well practiced to express that freedom and choose to do what we like. We also have the option to choose not to do something, and we believe this is also freedom. It seems freedom of choice is rated so highly in our world today.