Freedom During Hard Times

There are two kinds of people in this world; those who believe and those who aren’t. But what is exactly we believe to? Just simply believe in yourself, the people around you and most especially to the God from up above. But in order for us to achieve this we must be free and open. Like a bird flying in the sky or a fish swimming in the ocean and a worm crawling into the ground. Freedom comes in different ways a person can explain. It may be independence or having the ability to do things without stopping you. Some talk about freedom in a political sense, some talks about social freedom and some define it as a religious freedom. But the fact that everyone wants to be free, holds true in all cases.

            Last year and up until now, the pandemic has had a massive impact in our lives. It affected us most especially in our freedom. We were advised to stay at home for more than three months and that stopped us from communicating physically and doing things socially. It hindered us to do the things the way we want it to be but to abide by the situation and adjust to the catastrophe that is happening to us. It came to a point that teenagers like me were not allowed to go outside because it is in the rule. This prevented us to do such activities that we planned beforehand like a bird in its cage, restricted and was not able to fly across the sky. Humans have an amusing system that allowed us to make use of the time and make the best out of it believing we could things that are valid, and are as much exciting to the activities we planned and this is the freedom within ourselves to let our mind, body and soul to adjust in the situation. We adjusted to the cage that we were in but some did not. We were all affected mentally, emotional and physically. Freedom is the choice to live one’s life doing what one wants, live where one wants, eat by own choice and learn what one’s heart desires. This means that freedom can apply to different aspects of life and freedom is not an absolute term. Although we were deprived of it in some moments in our life, choices that were made during the pandemic is the freedom that we took advantage for.

I believe that believing in ourselves first will help us to practice our freedom within ourselves during the hard times. We can start by small changes and eventually it will result to a better outcome. It may seem that the pandemic has hindered us to do the things what we originally wanted but it didn’t, it just showed a different perspective of embracing a change with the plan. It showed that we are resilient and perseverance is a natural characteristic of a person and our freedom was not taken from us.