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RE: WHAT DOES FREEDOM MEAN TO YOU?: FREEDOM CHALLENGE #1
I missed your competition,
But what I read above for freedom, I think is very short lived freedom.
The above to me reads purely of financial freedom. While this does give a certain amount of freedom, It is personal freedom and not living as a free person, I think there is a very distinctive difference in both toward each other. Freedom should not be wealth dependant or it is not freedom?
Thank you @brayias for dropping by and thanks for commenting would like to know more about why you think my answer is purely about financial freedom? cheers
Maybe my reply was vague, (not intentionally, I know the point of view I was writing from unlike the reader).
"The above to me reads like financial freedom." is more the above is more often only achievable with having financial freedom might be a better line.
I think it would be short lived, as it would be still be finances within the current system of social economics. At some point, you will need more for some reason. Wind damage water damage to a property? The reasons can be numerous and wide ranged for the needs any person may come across, Many unforeseen. At that point you are plunged back into a need to gain more and your freedom is gone.
I did not mean it to read against you, or anything you wrote if you read it as so.
Life situation as we live with the need for high finance for a standard of living offers no freedom of choice, as at first you need to reach that golden hill. Once there, You need to keep adding to the hill or the hill will erode daily with the needs of life.
Hope this example I give is not too cryptic.
A higher standard to poverty is needed? where you have the freedom of choice from the start. To pursue your artistic endeavours, quests of nature, parental dedication, musical or financial.
thank you for coming back and responding, I hear what you are saying but I personally live very simply and have very little money, i do not own a house, we live in a truck and I have never wanted to reach any golden hill. I am happy to be living a life that has a low impact on the environment. My needs are not much, we have shelter and can feed ourselves, my kids are happy and have alot of freedom. I am a big fan of up cycling and recycling.
In my mind then, you have the riches of contentment. Very rare thing.
Myself I am trapped in the societies web. As yet, I am avoiding the spiders.