One Apple A Day #580 - the paradox of freedom
This morning I picked a card with a yellow bird flying away from an open cage, towards its freedom. With the image, there are also a few coloured words saying "Engaging + Freeing all the energy!!!".
Yesterday, a dear friend reminded me that sometimes, driven by the fear to lose our freedom, we build our very own cage around us.
It is a kind of paradox about freedom. And if you've read me before, you know my fascination with paradoxes.
The more you're afraid to lose your freedom, the more you lose it. You are so suspicious of any potential cage that you trap yourself within an invisible one.
I've seen this thing happening many times to friends, and I did it too. I carefully avoided commitments, I steered away from some choices only for fear of finding myself trapped into something from which there was no way out. And in doing so, step by step, I was creating an invisible cage. One from which there really no easy way out.
So, I think my personal learning here is that freedom must not be protected, it must be lived and engaged fully.