The freedom that never comes

I just managed to understand it, after a life devoted to the infinite search for freedom, the “struggle” for freedom, my freedom, I now understand this instant that freedom is not a state, but a journey, a way to go about life.  All I can do is smile!

And the author of this heresy that has enlightened me today is my teacher, Richard Bach, with his impeccable Jonathan Livingston Seagull.  Freedom is not a final stage, freedom is a life choice you make each second.  Being free means understanding that, every instant, we choose to live the adventure of finding our own purpose.  Being free depends on nothing and no one outside of us, because being free is a choice.  Today I discovered the heresy of my life: freedom is a choice

And if freedom is a choice, the responsibility we have to our soul and the wind is in our hands.  It is so easy and convenient to think and feel that we are not capable because something outside of us is limiting us.  It is so easy to feel that we have no power because we lack freedom in one way or another... but no, it turns out we have all the power in the Universe, the power to choose to be free, the power to choose to live based on freedom.

That is why freedom never comes, because freedom is not a destination.  Freedom is an attitude we use to choose to travel the path of our life.  And that has changed everything for me.