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Freedom? More Like Controlled Movements

Something many don’t seem know or think about, expect the few that long for freedom.

By Alexandra ClausenPublished 7 years ago 2 min read
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"We're simply puppets, hanging on strings, controlled by the government.."

The world in which we live spins around space, and orbits the sun; gravity holds us down. Common sense right? I know.

But something many don’t seem know or think about, expect the few that long for freedom, is how come we don’t get to feel the unknown? How come we're always protected, obeying the rules, and forced by laws of nature? How come our safety and health is so important to others and not so much ourselves? Almost as if we're apart of something bigger, a bigger plan, for the human race.

Even without command, we're forced down a road with zero knowledge or choice. We're under the illusion that we're all equal, but yet we're discriminated against by what we can't change, how our skin color becomes an issue in many different situations. How we're forced to look and act a certain way in order to fit into society, how we're forced to change to gain confidence, how we're treated differently by everybody and anybody based on our physical appearance

How we have no idea what's going to hit us, simply because the government and those before us create an illusion of freedom. Yet wars are still happening and we're forced to watch, and risk our lives for a piece of land, wealth, and religion. Something that would "benefit everybody" in our country, but in reality, benefits hardly any.

Times are changing and laws are too, same with actions and how they are perused, how forced conversion to religious views was once a thing and approved by ruling governors and governments to create a better population. This soon became illegal, in different areas across the map, but forced conversion is still active across the world today.

We're given an illusion that we're safe in our country by our prime ministers or presidents. But when times are inevitable, unpredictable on what the next elected will enforce say or do, depending on their mood, depending on their own personal views. This only creates a larger barrier, a larger illusion. That we have all this ability to create ourselves as individuals but don’t have the ability to peruse to the extent we want too.

How billboards, commercials, and ads are everywhere, designed to grab your attention, but they are popping up in every which direction. Creating an image of what's okay and what's not and what's a need and what's a want. Almost brainwashing, simply just to sell as many products as possible, to create a bigger gross income, to own more companies, and control the universe as we know it.

We're Simply puppets, hanging on strings, controlled by the government, and those before us, a larger idea, a bigger plan.

But what we must remember, instead of thinking about freedom in the picture of the government's control; we still have our minds. With the capability to do as we wish, to the limit in which doesn’t exist. As much as it seems the government can control, and what they can limit you from. Remember you as an individual, where you've come from, what you’ve made yourself to be, your thought process, your views and your beliefs are strictly yours to keep, under lock and key for as long as you please.

We're simply puppets hanging on strings, we can control our puppets, and strings to an extent, but the length in which we control is controlled by them.

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