Freedom is a beautiful thing

It just so happens that I have come across many quotes this week that connect to everything we have been discussing in class. I recorded a quote in my CBook that went a little something like this: --“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.” Ah yes, I know just what you are thinking. This quote fits perfectly into our ideas and talks about freedom and everything that goes along with it. I agree with this quote, but I also have a hunch that this may not be true as well.

First of all, freedom is an amazing thing. I don’t even think I can begin to describe the kind of freedom we are all faced with everyday. Of course we have restrictions, which I will talk about after, but just the fact that we have free will that we are able to base our ideas off from, is an awesome thing. Someone in our class on Tuesday defined freedom as action without restrictions. In some ways, we know this to be true. I don’t believe that freedom of thought can ever be argues against. No one, not even the law, can keep you from thinking for yourself…in fact, only YOU can keep you from thinking for yourself. Thought is a beautiful thing because no one else can get into your thoughts. Your creative self and creative ideas are strictly yours until you release them into what we like to call action.

Action, on the other hand, isn’t always free. Yes, freedom of action would be a nice thing in life (depending on what the action is), but we know that we have restrictions as to what thoughts we can put into action. We are not free in that aspect of action. As we have said over and over again in class, freedom is not really free. In order to act on something, we have to use intelligence and responsibility. If we didn’t use these factors to determine how we act, the world would be complete chaos. The argument of chaos and structure, however, is a whole other entry!