Happy Indepedence Day, then. Freedom is one of those fantastic things - like happiness, and like inner peace - that can only be attained by giving it to others. So go let someone you're close to, or attached to, or that you want something from, be free. Let go of your expectations of them. Free them from whatever obligation you think they might have. Free them, and see how you're freed in the process.
It's a small thing, I know, but I think this is how freedom works on a grand scale, too, and this exercise is a little more simple and a little more practical than freeing your favorite political prisoner. And if this is too much, or makes no sense, than do something else small. Go out and encourage someone - preferably a stranger - to realize how beautiful it is out, and how lucky we are, and how needless our battles. Smile. Be beautiful. Be free.
While you may have seen this already, I did add this site's blogroll to the black navigational box in the upper right. So go have a visit . . .
posted by Siona
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