Do you feel free?

[Terxpahseyton]

I am not asking how you judge your country, or your society. I am not interested in ideology or talking points. I want to know how you feel. With regards to your daily life and your life in general.

Poor out your heart, tavern!

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Yes. Because I do what I want.

Of course, that's just the feeling I get. I may be deprived of things that I would want, but don't know about. In a general sense though, yes.

 

[Eat_Up_Martha]

Not really. I'm certainly legally and socially free, and economically well enough to be mobile. But I feel weighted down by responsibilities most days.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Fear can keep you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

 

[NickyJ]

Fear can keep you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

I have a fear of fear.

 

[Perfection]

No, I feel expensive.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I have a fear of fear.

There is a lesson here. Don't fear fear. Accept fear. Or you keep running away from what you are. You will basically live fear.

 

[Core Imposter]

I have a fear of fear.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

 

[Tee Kay]

I'm a stranger in my own homeland, caged by law and debt, and a prisoner of my own mind, a situation which I got myself into but from which I cannot escape. So, no, I don't feel free.

 

[downtown]

I feel a little less free than I did a few months ago obviously...being married means I can't always do what I want, when I want to..and I cant just pick up and move to a different city tomorrow. I still feel plenty free enough though, and thats a trade I'll happily make.

I have marketable skills, a professional network, a good job, and live in a huge international city. I feel plenty free.

 

[LucyDuke]

Poor out your heart, tavern!

Indeed.

 

[madviking]

Despite both being a student and being employed, I voted in the college student for 'sorta'.

 

[Berzerker]

I do, but only because I ignore laws that violate freedoms I love

 

[Integral]

I feel mostly free, like maybe 75-80% free.

 

[Josu]

No way.
At certain moments, as single event, I do what I want, but my life gets ruled by responsabilities, some which I have choosen, but most of them have been imposed

 

[civver_764]

I've had basically no responsibilities for the last year in Germany, in addition to being allowed to go where I want and do what I want. So this is probably the freest time of my lite so far. But that's all gonna go away when I go back in a couple weeks. Then I'll have university and a job to deal with as well as my parents again. So kind of.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I certainly feel that the freedoms that are occasionally denied me pale into insignificance compared to the elation I feel from simply being alive, so I don't sweat it

BUT for the grace of God go I, so I try not to get too smug about my good fortune and stick up for the less free(whether it be financially or whatever) when the opportunity to do so arises.

 

[Borachio]

I'm a stranger in my own homeland, caged by law and debt, and a prisoner of my own mind, a situation which I got myself into but from which I cannot escape. So, no, I don't feel free.

This is really really sad! (If it's how you actually feel. I hope it isn't.)

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

There is a lesson here. Don't fear fear. Accept fear. Or you keep running away from what you are. You will basically live fear.

No do not accept it (at most as temporary evil) but kick its butt...

 

[civver_764]

You can't get rid of your emotions. The only thing you can do is accept that they're there and not let them control you.