Liberty

"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
Frederick Douglass

Why is it that we have to continually struggle to protect our freedom to be ourselves? There are constantly people who want to tell us what to do. People want us to do what makes them happy instead of what makes us happy. Or they may simply want us to do what has always been done because that is the system that they are comfortable with. We put up with this because our society has trained us right from the beginning to be victims.

We are taught, first by our parents and then by other "authoritarian figures" such as older family members, babysitters, teachers, the police and others, that in order to get the support we need, we must do what other people tell us to do. We accept this in part because if we have a setback or failure to get what we want, we can always blame someone else for it. It's their fault, not mine.

But this is not freedom and we know it. So we struggle for the right to be free to express who we really are. Without struggle there is no progress because people are happy to stay in their comfort zone. Society is happy with the system because it provides them with all the control. If we want control over our own lives, we have to fight for it. Freedom and struggle go together like plants and the soil, like rain and thunder, like the ocean and the noise of its waters. They need each other.
And freedom is essential for your success.

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