Bound by Freedom...

Bound By Freedom...under the illusive red, white, and blue...

Freedom is as illusive as the stars and stripes contained in the flag we fly on the fourth of July. If we are under something, it is over us, and even if it masquerades as free...is it?

Whether it is the alarm clock, duty, or the firecrackers going off outside our window, how much freedom do we really have dreaming the American dream? What is it that makes us free or binds us? Certainly not a flag...but maybe the ideas behind that flag.

Our Country was built on the idea of religious freedom for all. Religions are beliefs that bind us however; and substituting one belief for another, is just exchanging one prison for another jail cell.

What is bound? What can be free?

Most religious doctrines teach us that we are bound by fleshly desires, and it is the soul,or spirit that longs to fly like our flag in the breeze of freedom. And yet, here we are,working ourselves into unhappiness, in jobs we detest, paying for things we cannot afford, celebrating this day of freedom, all the while bound to someone elses timeclock, and a to do list that is not even ours; and what of those noisy firecrackers?

So what shall we do? Although burning the flag may or may not be an option, it has been done before...they just made another...no, the flag is just a symbol; has nothing to do with one's freedom or lack there of.

Examine what it is that you believe...what you are standing for...and what it is that truly makes one free or not...

It is not freedom or the flag that we are bound by...it is our ideas that masquerade as such...

tlc...