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Freedom


A few days back, when my little friend Kalyani and I were out for evening walk, she simply asked me “ Tai how do you define freedom? If someone says I am a free bird what does the person actually mean by that?” I stopped for a moment looked at her and started walking again without uttering a single word. For few minutes, she eagerly waited for my answer and when she felt that I am not bothering to answer her question, she prompted me. I gave her a blank look. Confused! Kalyani tried to understand what was I up to and finally got irritated and confirmed with me “Are you going to answer my question now or not?” I calmly said “no”. Shockingly she asked “why not!? I want to hear the answer right now, please. I am getting impatient, at least tell me a bit about it. Later part even if you explain me tomorrow it’ll be fine with me. While she was getting stubborn I very calmly asked her “why do you need the answer “now”, wait for 1-2 days will explain you thoroughly. She got more impatient and furious like a kid and walked away saying “fine! Either you tell me now or I don’t want to talk to you.”  For some reason, her behavior brought a smile on my face. After some time to my surprise, my phone blinked: text from Kalyani: “ I am sorry, I shouldn’t have walked away leaving you midway but still I am angry with you.” I continued with my daily chores. After an hour again a text was waiting on my phone: Kalyani “why didn’t you reply my last message? I know you are angry with me...I am feeling bad for the misbehavior, Please forgive me.” Reading this message I understood that she is going through mixed emotions at present and is stuck between her own thought, emotion, and action. so, I replied, “Come home tomorrow same time.” Instantly the reply came “yes! (with lot of smileys)”. Next day when she came home she sat eagerly waiting for me to speak something. I sat beside her and asked “how did you felt yesterday evening when you left?” she replied “ irritated, guilty and unsatisfied.”  Then I asked “how was the feeling in the morning?” she replied “almost the same” and “how was the whole day?” replied “sad”. And “how are you feeling now?” replied, “curious and free”. I asked Why so? She replied, “there are two reasons one is finally I can witness your mood after my yesterday's misbehavior which tells me that you are not angry on me so I am feeling free and secondly, I know that now I’ll get my answer.” I smiled at her and replied, “this present feeling of yours is freedom.” The feeling of being liberated is freedom.

But here, my dear Kalyani your feeling is dependent on my reaction which should not be the case. When our thoughts, emotions, and actions are in sync with each other only then we can call ourselves emotionally liberated or free. And this should have been a case with you, whereas, in your case, your action was not in sync with emotions neither your thoughts and so for the whole day you were trapped within your own negative thoughts and emotions about the situation.

 so... check on the trinity of your thoughts, emotions, and actions regularly.

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  1. Unknown14 November 2017 at 09:04

    ❤️

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  2. Krushn Dayshmookh14 November 2017 at 17:42

    We must be liberated from our own thoughts and never be bothered about what others feel or say about us and do what we really want to...

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  3. Unknown15 November 2017 at 03:15

    ❤

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  4. Unknown15 November 2017 at 07:46

    Freedom is felt by the one who surges forward with all his/ her might and wits whenever he/ she is about to get shackled by the thoughts of dependance.

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