What is freedom?
Did you ever make an attempt to formulate on your own, what is freedom? It turns out not be simple.
If to spend much time at work, many financial possibilities appear, but it remains little spare time, to take advantage of these possibilities.
And on the contrary if you have not enough work, there will be mass of spare time, but this time will not be used with complete freedom which is given by finances. And if not to work – there will be no finances.
Being an usual employee or worker, you have mass of chiefs who limit your freedom of choice, and you feel a permanent irritation from someone who points you what you must do. But here you are free of ideas about permanent problems. you know exactly, that you are obliged to carry out orders of the authority, and you honestly will get the wages twice a month. Due to this in other things your head is free of making any decisions. And at eighteen in the evening you forget about work and get engaged in your own businesses. Being a chief, you are free of orders from above and free in making decision, but you are limited in freedom of spare time and your head constantly hurts about that from where to take money on a pay-envelope, how to cope with papers, and what prospects your enterprise has. What steps are very necessary to be undertaken in order in the future an enterprise survives at the market. If a simple employee after completion of a work day throws out all ideas about work, quite different things are waiting for a chief. He has got a round-the-clock headache about the work and often without a weekend. Well and, finally, freedom of movement. Obviously, the greater amount of kilometres you pass, the more you feel free. For people who work at offices life seems to pass somewhere behind the window.
But monks, subjugating spaces of Tibet, but also living in the limited territories, in majority live extreme old age.
Who is free? A sportsman who spends the greater part of his life in a gym, having an excellent health and exactly knowing what to do in life, or a lazy person playing computer games and inundating the attacks of permanent depression by cheap port?
It seems to me that in order to become free, it is necessary to become the owner of the life. Who knows exactly, what he wants and works to achieve his aim is a free person.
When one achieves the aims then becomes happy.
And to be happy, perhaps, means to be completely free.