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Hello everybody!
Have I missed WaWe. Hope everyone is having an awesome new year.
This is an illustration I just finished for one of Jennifer Poulter's poster poems. The inner me was always daydreaming and trying to work out the world in my mind.
Goauche and coloring pencil.
I’m daydreaming about freedom and wondering, simultaneously, if I can even define freedom.
That is a wonderful dream. It is so elusive. I found my ideas of freedom change even as I feel I’m closer to it. Right now my idea of freedom is the ability to pursue what makes me happy. In order to do this I must rely on my health and security. For me happiness includes writing and traveling. Although even as I have achieved this there are things that I’ve found might make me happier, like a home base. There was a time where I thought freedom meant making a lot of money or a college degree or living on my own. But all of these ideas changed for me over the years. There have been times in my pursuit when I’ve felt less “free” than others. Say when I was raising small children. But the joy my girls gave me far outweighed those passing feelings.
Good luck in your quest, my friend. Dreaming is a nice way to start.
Thank you! Yours is a lovely definition of freedom. Alas, I sometimes wonder if freedom is a natural state for us or if we are forever doomed to be prisoners of our own worst attributes. How free are we, after all, when our individual realities are so profoundly shaped by the narrow prisms through which we see the world?
I think that freedom as an absolute definition for everyone is hard to tackle. We can only experience the world from our perceptions. [perception=reality] But looked at individually, I believe freedom is a state of mind. I’ve seen some prisoners who were free because they were pursuing their beliefs. I’ve seen some people you might think are free–wealthy people or people who seem to have it all–trapped by their own mental prisons be it debt or guilt, etc. As far as freedom being a natural state? I do believe it is human nature to want to be free but I don’t think it’s automatically in our nature to know what that particular meaning is for ourselves. I think we have to start with an idea, pursue it and then reshape it as we live.
I find this discussion so moving right now especially as Egypt is trying to define that for herself. I know that the Americans I talk to support the Egyptian people and their quest for a voice in their government and an end to oppression.