Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains By Naz

Man is born free,and everywhere he is in chains. By Naz


"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.  He who believes himself the master of others does not escape being more of a slave than they"............the legendry words of JJ Rousseau.
There are essentially three types of people; those who put a bird in a cage and enjoy watching it everyday in their custody, and those who let the bird out of the cage and make joy of seeing it fly with freedom.
Type I will always tell you that they LOVE their bird.  They provide it with a cage, food, water and all other essentials.  Some would go further and clip their bird's wings so it can't fly, or if it did, will not fly far, a made to measure bird that one can always catch and put back in the cage.Paradoxically, Type II will also tell you that they LOVE their bird.That's odd, the naive of you will ask? how can LOVE be represented by two opposing views.  Let me remind you of what you already know but choose to ignore; Love is a Godly character (God loves his children)....if you are a believer, subscribe to this notion, if not, skip it.......the emphasis is that Love is an emotion that demands higher standards than usual.................standards of Gods.
Love implies that one should not bring any harm to the object of one's love.........otherwise the term would be meaningless. Love is an emotion strictly reserved for objects (including humans) for their specific qualities.  Love is not a tool or means to change these objects into what one thinks they should be to achieve self gratification.  One loves something/someone for what it is/they are.......full stop.
Would a rose change the colour of its petals to satisfy its audience? Love hence also implies no expectation of/or return or payment of any kind from the object of one's love. Love is an emotion that carries its own satisfaction, it is absolute as opposed to business or commercial transactions that are variable in character and where one rightly expects some profit return.
As Love is absolute (you either love something or someone or you don't!) it also implies it is long lasting (eternal is too strong a word).
 One can't love for 3, 15.55 or 37.34 years and then stop loving! You love something for good or you don't .....as simple as that.
Enough waffle about love, the subject is freedom.  Subscribe to Type II, let the bird out of the cage and watch it enjoy its freedom and you will live happily ever after.  Subscribe to Type I, deny your bird its freedom and forfeit your own right to freedom, as someone somewhere, somehow and at sometime is bound to put you in chains.
Who is Type III?.......Ahhhhhh....these are people, usually men, who can't take NO for an answer!............more to come about that subject in good time.