Most people will tell you that freedom is something tangible; something that can be defined in political or social terms. For instance you often hear people referring to America as 'the land of the free'. Hence in that sense, freedom is percieved as a context within which the individual can supposedly do what they want. But people only seek that which they have been taught about; they want only that which their environment has taught them to want. I'm not talking about that type of freedom. It bores me. It's ephemeral and fake. I'm looking for the real thing: To be free from freedom. That is the crux of my preoccupation. That alone is how I define the burden as well as the blessing of our congenital disease. That which, although we never asked for, we were born with. That famous declaration: 'I think therefore I am', conceals far more tradegy that than anything else. It is true that we are defined through our thinking and our thoughts. It is our thinking that makes each one of us who we are. At the same time it is this thinking that condemns us to a life of trying to surpass, to transcend if you prefer, this sentence of intelligence. For those of us who live in their heads, life is a constant effort to free ourselves from our inherent freedom, from our capacity to think, analyse, dream, fear, and hope.
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