Yesterday, someone asked me, which country shares Independence Day with ours. Oh! I so forgot, it’s none other than South Korea. Also, I came across this article somewhere, asking people for the reason of celebrating such a day after long 67 years. Is it to remember that we were once under colonial rule of Britain? Why do we need to remember such thing? Why don’t we forget it and try to do some real work towards real independence of our country from evils in the society or pressing issues in the country (Yup, I think that was it. Not sure, if I read something else…… coz you know, more than half of the times I’m spaced out, just like now).

That made me wonder, what this “real independence” means? If you think of freedom, does that only mean freedom from other people’s rule or freedom to do anything on your own? Is that even possible? Aren’t we the ones, who are driven not by our desires or needs but what people around us think of us and want from us? And it’s not like, we can live without that. It is what is driving our lives. There are so many vicious circles in every walk of our life tying us to one thing or other.

Oxford dictionary defines freedom as “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants”. Can we really do that given the nature of society and human beings? Right from the beginning of our lives till the end, we are not free and never can be. It may as well be a relative term. Someone may have more strictness around him/her regarding some things than his/her best friend. That means he/she has less freedom. That’s it! But it won’t be like the best friend doesn’t have any restrictions on him/her.

Not only outside, inside ourselves too. But that goes more on spiritual and deep philosophical note which is not my cup of tea.  I’m only good at pondering on such things. It is difficult to express, so I’ll leave that part to you.

On the last note, Happy Independence Day to citizens of India, South Korea, Bahrain and Republic of the Congo, though my question still remains unanswered and I’m still not sure about what have I written above. Also, just to clarify, I’m not hating anything or anybody here, just saying. It applies for human beings in general and I’m included too!