Edit: Oh shit, this became a wall of text before I realized 
This thread have been down for a while, and maybe we can use something new around here. I think this thread hasn't been on the 1st page much because we don't have many things to talk about. So what do you guys think if we have some random topics to discuss every few days or week? It would be a great chance to practice some writing and at the same time train our mind. We can also to bring up some topics we rarely can talk about because we yet to have much in common (like love, work, trouble in life,...).
I will try to start it. This gonna be a heavy philosophical topics I think.
Freedom
Since I was young, I've been obsess with freedom. Maybe it was because I got too much attention from my family (I was the only boy in my father side). My biggest 16 year old's dream was to have a decent cottage to live in enjoy my life there. (I was affected by an Australian cooking show I watched then, but I cannot remember its name)
I think that school and college is a trap/prison and we have no choice but to follow through until the very end. I used to believed that when one grow up, one can truly be free and do whatever one want. After I had finished my college, I learnt that work is much better than school because we can always say no to a shitty job but we can rarely say no to a shitty teacher. And with that small taste of freedom I started to believe that I was one step closer to being free. But then I realized, we are all prisoned in this house of chain called society. We are bounded by every connection we made, every relationship we have. We are chained by the responsibility to ourself and to everyone around us. We are forever to stuck in this web because after all we human are a social species. And this idea really upset me because it destroyed my dream forever.
2 months ago something changed my mind: I read a fantasy book. It's about a main character who did great things, end the war and bring peace to his country. After that, he did not return, his family and friends thought he was dead, everyone else believed he was a traitor and a monster. But still he refused to be acknowledged, he refuse to claim his good deed. The reason was that he had the same thought as me. He was too tired of the burden so called responsibility we all must bear. So he take that chance to start a new life in a distant place in a small farm with his dog (it's just like my dream). And he believed that he was happy but sadly in the end he could not truly be content, because now he have no friends, no family, nor any familiar face.
This really make me think. Perhaps we can never be free because to be free is to cut ourself loose from the human social. The ultimate price of that freedom is our happiness and it is too much for any of us to sacrifice. I start to believe that I have to accept that true freedom cannot be achieve and I must find a balance points for my freedom and my social life.
So what do you guys think of freedom? How much freedom do you guys think is enough for us to be happy and where can we draw the line? I would love to hear you guy's thought in this discussion.
how are you guys doing
