Monday 25 April 2011
"History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. "
Charles de Gaulle
Freedom from hunger and freedom from pain
freedom from loss and so freedom from gain.
Freedom to give and freedom to sharefreedom from want and that of despair.
Freedom to think and freedom to know
freedom to achieve and freedom to grow.
Freedom from bondage and freedom of liberation
freedom from ignorance and any unknown situation.
Freedom to come and freedom to leave
freedom to stay and freedom to conceive.
Freedom from struggle and freedom of ease
freedom to enjoy and the capacity to please.
Freedom from failure and freedom of success
freedom from denial and freedom of access.
Freedom from illusion and freedom of reality
freedom to become what we are in actuality.
Freedom to live and freedom to die
freedom to laugh and freedom to cry.
Freedom to speak and freedom to listen
freedom to act based on a wise decision.
Freedom from hate and freedom of love
freedom of below and freedom of above.
Freedom of the past and freedom of the present
freedom of the future and what it can represent.
Freedom from war and freedom of peace
freedom to begin and freedom to cease.
Freedom from sickness and freedom of health
freedom from poverty and mishandled wealth.
Freedom from wrong and freedom being right
freedom of the day and freedom of the night.
Freedom to choose and freedom to reject
freedom to imagine what there is to expect.
Freedom from lust and freedom from greed
freedom from anger and freedom from breed.
Freedom from jealousy and freedom from pride
freedom from within and freedom from outside.
Freedom of always not having anything to hide.
Freedom from space and also freedom from time
freedom from attachment and freedom from crime
Freedom to work and freedom to play
freedom to believe and freedom to pray.
Freedom to experience a rebirth someday.
There´s nothing I can really say about April 25 once I wasn’t born yet. Nevertheless, I have my own opinion about such an important day because freedom is one of the things I thank the most although I believe this young generation takes it for granted - It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. We have never lived in another reality so we don´t really appreciate it.
I hope that will change and people respect their own freedom and that of the others.
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
(I hope you'll have the patience to read it all)
Daniela :)
1 comentários:
Dear Daniela
I read the post and your poem with happiness and interest. I went through the ups and downs of the revolution and it was indeed a time of freedom and of dreaming. i still have dreams for my country and the future generations but I would like to see our politicians respect people and their lives and not only their bellies.
thanks
Prof. Lígia Silva
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