And what of Freedom?

Our inclination to do things, often don’t harmonize with the things we obliged ourselves to do. With these I mean the many things we do to make ends meet, like following a job, doing the chores in and around our family home, do our taxes and raise our children.

For all that we may have to get out of bed when still tired, or spent the best hours of the day doing things we don’t necessarily feel like doing.

It seems to be then that our longing for freedom takes effect most.

And yes, if a long weekend awaits us, and we come to enjoy a morning in bed rather than heading for an unliked job to pay the bills, we feel a little as if we possess that freedom we were longing for.

Some of us, take that experience to trigger self-employment in expectation for more of it, only to find, that the hours to make that extra bit of money extend into “never-ending” before we even come to enjoy the weekend, that formerly was a guaranteed reward for a five day weeks work.

But replacing awards come our way soon. Now we suddenly are able to afford the better car, the bigger home and eventually even the boat that sets us equal with others in the same field of business.

But we seem to have less and less time for the family and friends, and find, that when we do take time off, it gets more and more difficult to shut that thinking and planning machine of the brain down. We don’t want to lose the upcoming opportunity to make that extra bit of income to pay for all the goodies we invested to enjoy.

Enjoy?

Where is the enjoyment now?

And then, we may be one of those many who first start to struggle and after doing so for a while lose control over the vital finances. Deeper and deeper dead sends us into a depression, we start to neglect the family even further, only this time it’s not the business planning anymore, but the inevitable closure of your business. You experience to be a looser and all your striving to be more seems to have failed.

What then is it, whose call have you been following?

At the core of every human being, lies the innate wish to clearly know who he or she is and why we are here.

While we follow the course impressed on us by our environment, we still secretly keep asking the question, as we feel there to be a connection in between our wish to be happy and this vital answer.

This core question, even though everybody is asking it, is widely avoided to be mentioned in public. Nobody seems to want to admit to this instability of life and intuitively knows that hardly anyone would be able to answer it satisfactory.

So, we carry it with us unanswered and keep doing what we’ve learned how to do, chasing our dreams the way society wants us to.

There are a few things we innately long to achieve. That’s Freedom, Happiness and Peace! Everybody wants the experience of these three things in life. And the only way of truly achieving them, lies in the ultimate recognition in who and what we are.

To achieve this, we have to go inside, to let that, which wants to impress us, leave its footprint unaltered. One can start with moments of simple silence. That’s a good way to start and will change once perspective.

Only later, when this new perspective has taken a firm hold, will we change our practice of silence into formal meditation.

Now, all doors are open, and you will find the true freedom you were looking for!