Since everyone has been bugging me to update my blog of late, I decided, why not? After all, something
did pop into my nonsensical-junk-filled-brain today. I have therefore decided to write this extremely long post about that very 'boring' something just to ward you guys off reading my blog. :)
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Today, after lunch with some really great as well as greatly missed friends, I accompanied Julia on a trip to pickup her little brother from the Tropicana area. We had to take a detour to get there and back; a detour that took us about 10-15 minutes more than it normally would take. Why? All this because some 'brilliant minds' came together and decided,
hey! there's more than one way to get into this area, why don't we block the most convenient one of all? Let everyone waste 15 extra minutes and that much worth of petrol just to get to us. That would be fun! It would make us feel pretty darn-diggity important too!
When we finally arrived back at the Damansara Utama area, as we drove past the road I would normally take to Julia's house, I noticed that it was, as always, blocked. We had to take a different route and bypass the check-point where the guard just bums around and does nothing. Pretty efficient, I would say. After all, that
is the whole ides, isn't it?
But inefficient guards aren't really much of my concern at the moment. I just had this thought... Is it me, or does it feel like the world is becoming a less and less liberated place? Is it me, or is freedom slowly dissipating into nothingness? I mean, just think about it from the point of view I brought up. Everywhere we drive, we are restricted by some barrier or another. Most of the times, these barriers aren't even necessary. Sure they say it's for safety purposes. But like I mentioned, most guards just bum around and do nuts! Most of the time, they just take one cursory glance at you and waves you in. Unless they have a photographic memory, I don't see how this helps.
The world used to be such a free place. People in the stone age walked where they wanted to walk, slept where they wanted to sleep. Of course, this glorified take on the past ignores the fact that danger lurks behind every stone. However, it is true that freedom means less now than it did before.
Last time, freedom meant - do whatever your hands want to do and go where ever your feet takes you. Today, we think we're free regardless of certain facts.
In some places, you pay to use the loo; you pay to use some roads; you pay to park your car; you pay to drink tap water. Nothing comes free anymore. How many times have you seen a sign that says : 'trespassers will be prosecuted/shot'? How many times have you came across a sign that says : 'no entry' or 'authorized personnel only'? How many times have you been told 'you can't' to doing something or going somewhere? You can't do this, you can't say that, you can't go here, there, anywhere! You can't, you can't, you can't! These are words, signs and rules which are common in our everyday life.
Even as a child; even as an infant, we are taught boundaries.
A kid puts his limits to the test by climbing the steps, his mother goes, no! bad boy! Do you want to fall?! and whacks him. Honestly, how bad is a fall compared to a whack?
A child reaches out to grab something edible on the table to eat. Instantly a hand appears as though magic, from out of nowhere and whack! No! bad boy/girl! You won't be able to finish that! Well, who are parents to tell their kids they won't be able to do something or another?
These are based on real life observations. :P
So in conclusion,anyone who says that he/she is free is, to be honest, completely delusional. The word just simply does not exists anymore. End of story.