17/12/2021
This is freedom!
Recently I’ve been thinking about what my definition of freedom has been during the pandemic… (and likely well before the pandemic)…
Because I didn’t truly believe that I was free…
Because the government had taken away my rights. They took away my jobs, my ability to go clothes shopping and to eat out at restaurants and to work out at the gym all because of my choice to not put what I perceive to be a potentially dangerous substance in my body… my physical temple I have done my best to honor and listen to for years now.
And whilst all those things are true, I’ve come to the realization this past week that I was already free this entire time!! (Took me a while but I’m feeling grateful for the light bulb moment 😉!)
But I sure as hell wasn’t behaving like it!
I was moping around. I was blaming the government. I was having pity parties when people didn’t show up for my online classes. I was living in victim consciousness (despite thinking I didn’t do that anymore).
So as an unjabbed and pro-choice but also anti-vax person (yes I can be pro and anti at the same time), who has had many of my so called “freedoms” taken away, I was truly behaving like a person who was not free.
I was still
I believed that someone else GAVE me my freedom.
That it wasn’t just mine. My birthright.
But not anymore.
I am and always will be free. Because being free is a state of mind.
Being free is something you create in your mind and it translates into your outer world.
Being free is not found in a clothing store or a restaurant or a job or having a lot of money.
So they can take away my access to amenities and I’ll still be free.
They can take away my right to work and I’ll still be free.
They can kick me out on the street or lock me up in jail and I’ll still be free.
What matters are my beliefs and my perspective.
There’s a quote I heard today (no idea of it’s origin)
“It is done unto you as you believe.”
(Side note, is it a totally coincidence that on the day I realized this, I read that unjabbed people were now allowed to shop in retail again?? Just to be clear, I don’t believe in coincidences) >>> continued in comments