We are afraid of freedom. You may think this statement is absurd.
How can freedom be something to fear?
But freedom requires the assuming of responsibility.
We think freedom is the very thing we need; that it is our god given right!
But do we show freedom that we want it?
Have we respected the forces that bring us our freedom?
Freedom comes with responsibility.
To deny one, is to deny the other.
Many of us may be afraid to take responsibility.
If we do not face that fear. If we do not face ourselves.
We will forever deny responsibility to ourselves.
And so, we will forever deny our own freedom.
One can physically be free and yet still be a prisoner.
Have we not been a victim of our own thinking?
All of us risk forever being a prisoner of our own minds.
We are in chains. And yet we have the key.
What will it take for us to release ourselves?
When will we grant ourselves the freedom we seek?
Forces, experiences, and events come at us from the outside.
We thought the meaning and effect of these were already written.
But we were wrong.
These events are neutral.
We may not be the creator of these events.
But it is we who decide their meaning and how they are written.
This is the assuming of responsibility.
And this is our key to the gaining of our freedom.
For freedom comes with responsibility.
Assuming Responsibility: The Eagles Story
Freedom inspires the image of an Eagle.
We see the eagle breaking the chains of gravity.
It soars beyond the grasp of the earth.
And we may think this power is of its own making.
But look closely.
Reconsider the image formed in the mind.
What gives the eagle flight?
It is the wind and the updraft.
This same wind creates thunderous waves and storms beyond reckoning.
But the eagle knows its own strengths.
And it knows the part it must play.
It shapes its wings and writes the story of the winds force, for its own making.
This is how the eagle breaks its chains from gravity.
It takes responsibility for its role with the forces of the wind.
And so, it finds its freedom.
Assuming Responsibility and Becoming The Eagle
To become an eagle, we must stop playing it small.
We must stop playing the role of the victim.
We are not the rabbit on the run. We are the eagle upon the rabbit.
Stop blaming events that have transpired and stop blaming those that have wronged us.
These are unproductive thoughts.
To continue this line of thinking will entrap us in a prison of our own making.
Turn upon those forces, those evils, those wrongs that brought out the worst in us.
Face them and no longer allow them to limit us to a reactionary and angry state.
We re-write the meaning of events that have transpired and set ourselves free.
Assuming Responsibility: It Is Time
Now we know the truth and we know who we are.
We are the eagle.
We will not run and hide.
Instead, we will face what transpires.
Spreading our wings and shaping our own story.
Claiming responsibility, and so claiming our freedom.
We take flight and soar….
Thanks For Reading.
Sincerely,
Kurt Petersen