Freedom, Where is mine??
The recent fiascos in the news make me feel that I have been robbed. But one is robbed of something which one already has. On the retrospect, it feels like I never had any.
I was promised freedom. Freedom, to live as I want. Yet, with time I realise that freedom is only a mere mention of word, without any real meaning. We claim to be the biggest democracy in the world. We just claim!!
I may be allowed to vote and choose who should ‘rule’ over me, yet I am not considered knowledgeable enough to understand whether I should drink or not. Neither I am allowed to shake a leg after 11 PM, for my law enforcing agency feel this is the best way to curb the non-law abiding elements. Sometimes I wonder why not put the whole city on curfew and then you won’t have any problems. Is my law enforcing agency incapable and forcing their incapability on to me or is it that I am too dumb to get the point.
As I write this post, I am a wee bit afraid, for I am not allowed to express my opinions. If my opinions are against the opinions of some people, I am not allowed to express. The Girls of my country are not allowed to drink, as it is not per our ‘culture’ and some how, some people have the right kick some brains into those girls who do. I wonder if they will force my fellow brothers fighting and protecting my ‘sovereign state’ to use bows & arrows or swords for that was my culture some centuries ago. Or whether I would be forced to wear a lungi/Pyjamas or dhoti to work for that was my culture.
Some years back, when I walked up to a friend, she shooed me away. I did not understand until the next day when she explained it was Valentine’s Day and if some protectors of my culture would have seen me with her, I would had to be carried away.
Every day I wake up and realise that I have new restrictions around me. I sometimes wonder whether I have been given the ‘FREEDOM’‘ that I was promised or mockery has been made of the word.
I wonder whether my Freedom was robbed from me or whether they just cheated me out of it.
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