Time of Our life

I am walking inside of a dark tunnel, eyes wide open, searching for little pieces of light that can drag me out of this torturous path. This was how I felt when I had no time to devote to myself to think, speak, or act. The path symbolizes the bondage that traditional ideas have on our mind, and the rays of light stand for the sparkles of personal awakening of realizing what we really want to do. Freedom to me is not the minimum constraint on things we do, but the maximum amount of time we can use to pursue our own values and goals of life, which in my word is the premise of FDR’s four freedoms: the freedom of controlling time. We are all born with equal distribution of hours per day, and how to make use of it depends on not only others but also ourselves. A person with no freedom of controlling his time could be influenced by family, friends, and society, as he dedicates his precious time to blindly follow what other people do. On the other hand, the same person could be influenced by himself. The lack of general education and active thinking put him into a coma that both consciously and unconsciously he no longer reacts to stimuli like new ideas. Thus, the freedom of speech and religion, the freedom from want and fear cannot be practiced without a dynamic mind that knows how to devote and can devote one’s time to achievements.