What does freedom mean to you in your life and are you there?

"just yesterday someone was taken to court because she ''dared '' to tell another woman on the train that eating stinky boiled eggs in public at 6am on packed train was offensive ".
I thought that was somewhat odd. Google the incident. She didn't "dare" to tell the egg eater it was offensive. She got in the woman's face, screaming, extremely abusive, and threatening to do bodily harm. She deserved the fine.
 

MY FREEDOM
After coming close to a nervous breakdown about 12 years ago, I am living my life on my terms...PRICELESS!!!!!!!! Inner Freedom comes with a price. When you decide you want freedom in your life not everyone will like you and that's ok with me because I am not willing to change my life to please others and their egos... I am who I am and I do not apologize for that.
 
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Go out and drive on a country dirt road. Then compare that with a drive through the city where everywhere you look there are SIGNS. "Do this! Don't do that!" You are free as long as you follow the rules. ☠
 
fmdog44 said:
Go out and drive on a country dirt road. Then compare that with a drive through the city where everywhere you look there are SIGNS. "Do this! Don't do that!" You are free as long as you follow the rules. ☠
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This is where Freedom means different things to each person. I do not look at that as me not having inner freedom in my life. Took me years to get here and no one can take it away. Yes, there are rules, laws, regulations, etc. which are in place for a reason but those rules do not dictate my inner freedom.
 
fmdog44 said:
Go out and drive on a country dirt road. Then compare that with a drive through the city where everywhere you look there are SIGNS. "Do this! Don't do that!" You are free as long as you follow the rules. ☠
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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

"Signs"
Song by Five Man Electrical Band
 
Sunny said:
Sorry things have taken such a turn in the U.K., Holly. How about the Hyde Park orators? Are they still permitted to get on their soapboxes and rant on about whatever pleases them? I hope so!
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Yes it's very sad here now compared to the freedoms we enjoyed such a very short time ago... and also did you know that the people of the Uk are spied upon by more CCTV cameras that anywhere else in he world?

Anyway , that aside, yes in Speakers corner is still alive if not as entertaining as it once was.. more often people now spouting religious nonsense and rhetoric ..
 
Capt Lightning said:
I think there was more to it than that. It would seem that she acted in a threatening manner and screamed in the woman's face. She was fined £750 and ordered to pay £750 compensation.

I don't think we have much freedom in the UK, unless you're an anarchist, terrorist or similar and then you can scream all you want about your human rights while seeking to deny them to others.
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Hmmm.. nope I don't believe she did that..too many people stated otherwise,...I could continue on but I won't. I don't want to derail the thread and certainly not for a political point!
 
fmdog44 said:
Go out and drive on a country dirt road. Then compare that with a drive through the city where everywhere you look there are SIGNS. "Do this! Don't do that!" You are free as long as you follow the rules. ☠
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Depends on how you look at it. To me those signs exist to keep you and others safe from bodily harm.
 
Olivia said:
Freedom for me would be finding peace with all. Or would that be apathy?
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I think that the lack of desire is the key.

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Pretty cool, Aunt Bea, that you got my meaning. Except that it still doesn't help. Buddha (who never thought of himself as anything special and never intended to be worshiped) didn't live in our times where each individual can still make a difference for many others in the world. To forget about that would to me be apathy. I believe for thinking people there is no freedom except when you're dead.
 
I agree it's very difficult to comment on incidents if you didn't witness them yourself. You can only go by what you read, but when several papers report the same story, you think "no smoke without fire" .

I suppose that living in rural Scotland I have a relatively relaxed time although that freedom is constantly being eroded by laws that target everyone, not just the guilty.
 
Freedom to me is doing what I believe is right for me. I like to think & live "outside the box". I don't like society telling me what I should do, think or act. I hate advertisers trying to shove something down my throat. Don't want anyone telling me I should have a tatoo all over my body, listen to rap music, keep buying a new truck every year or volunteer when I want to do my own thing. Guess I don't like to be pushed around. Reckon, I have been a country boy way before country boys got hip. LOL
 
Everyone has good answers. I agree with all of you. Freedom to choose how we lead out life. To be able to have and share an opinion that may be unpopular, or not shared by all in your circle of friends.
I am alone now, and while I am sad, on another side I feel free. Free to live my own life, make my own decisions. Am I disrespecting my husband's memory by saying that? I do not think so. I feel free enough to move on beyond the grief I felt., and still feel. I do not feel guilt for smiling, laughing, or enjoying a good time.
 
You know when I had a career & worked 5 days/week, I had a boss who told me how high to jump & what colour socks to wear. No more. Retirement is freedom or it sure should be. "I'm free as the breeze & I go where I please, Saddle Tramp, Saddle Tramp", a song by Marty Robbins; many years ago but one I still listen to.
 
I loves me some youtube.

There's a video clip to fit almost any occasion. :)

 

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