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Originally posted by Harman
And last, always remember that any free person ( as in not behind physcal bars) is free to do their own thing about the life they ae living even if the road ahead is one not much traveled. I am in a situation where almost everyone still thinks i am a little freaky but i know i can pack up my stuff and go to some hippy-encampment where ever ( india, Australia, Europe etc) if it feels to restricitive. Even the knowledge of that posibility gives me some feeling of freedom.
[edit on 20-11-2008 by Harman]
Originally posted by pharaohmoan
Originally posted by Harman
And last, always remember that any free person ( as in not behind physcal bars) is free to do their own thing about the life they are living even if the road ahead is one not much traveled. I am in a situation where almost everyone still thinks i am a little freaky but i know i can pack up my stuff and go to some hippy-encampment where ever ( india, Australia, Europe etc) if it feels to restricitive. Even the knowledge of that posibility gives me some feeling of freedom.
Sorry but to think you are free is such a common delusion and is wrong. Perhaps you have been conditioned to think you are free but actually there are sooo many controling factors that govern your behavior, I can list some but in reality there are too many to mention. If you think you are free then I put it to you you don't know the definition of the word freedom, unless of course you've built this comfortable box around yourself and are one of the deluded or as I mentioned in my earlier post, one of those simply lying to yourself, or not of strong enough mind to actually know the difference.
Originally posted by dunwichwitch
reply to post by meadowfairy
I've had the urge to do this exact thing you reccomend, but I don't have money, and everything around here costs money. Lots of money. My whole entire family eats crap. Any whollistic food stores around here are outrageously overpriced. I have been thinking about trying to grow my own food inside, but my mom smokes. I don't have the money to move out. I can't hold a job very well without having a mental breakdow and quitting, and the problem is that everyone around here is like "get a job or get out.". Nobody around here is connected at all. Everyone fends for themselves and their families, and beyond that there is NO sense of charity whatsoever.
I don't even have a car. You need a car around here because they purposely make all the shopping centers and workplaces at least ten miles away so you absolutely must drive, especially in the winter in Illinois. You'd die of hypothermia walkingeven five miles.
I'm most likely making excuses because what I'm up against seems so huge.