We always repeat that we are free, we do what we want, we go where we want to go, etc. After all, we live in another time where we exercise our right to choose, the right to come and go. Reality may not exist for everyone, but it is true for most. If I can, I’ll do or get what I want, and everything’s fine.
But to what extent does this freedom of choice not make you a slave, to what extent does it not make you believe that you have to have or do to be and it leads you to another model of success and manufactured happiness?demanding a thousand actions, as if we were robots programmed to prove that we are capable, not by ourselves, but by the models they call us to be.
- We’re full of things to use.
- To buy.
- That we don’t even know why we do it.
- No matter if it’s over budget.
- But we do.
- Then we plunged into a sea of anguish to solve problems they didn’t need.
- Without realizing it.
- We become slaves to our own actions.
- Sometimes unthinkable.
We are enslaved by fears, excessive consumption, perfections, our ego, servileness to ideas that are not our own, and that is why we are whipped with demands, feelings of incapacity, guilt and frustration. If we have no control over ourselves, act and think within what balance brings us, not get carried away by demands and appearances, we are wrong about the “I am free” and become slaves to ourselves.
And as a gift, we generate anxiety and depression in our minds, allowing us to be enslaved by things that do not bring the satisfaction we wanted, so slavery will not be outside, but within us with thoughts and feelings that are far from what we wanted. it’s really good for us.
Hannah Arendt, German philosopher, in an excerpt from the book?Human condition? Said:
“The assumption that a person’s identity transcends in size and importance everything he can do or produce is an indispensable element of human dignity. If you end up with more than just vanity, you’ll notice that being a slave and a prisoner of yourself is as bitter and humiliating as being someone else’s slave.