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Limitation of Freedom by Society

What is freedom? Flying, travelling without any responsibility or doing whatever wanted at any time? Freedom is doing whatever you want but without giving any harm to others’ rights. Freedom is not limited in politics or religion. Freedom is in every field.

In modern world, how free are we? We’re captivated. We have to conform to the social rules and if we don’t conform, then we are labelled as “insane” which is a social construction. This label can change over time and across cultures. In the past, when Galileo said that the earth is round, he was labelled as “insane” and now we accept him as a scientist who helped to improve our knowledge about universe.  People can’t Express their feelings or thoughts because of social oppressions. When someone expresses a different thought, others try to get away from him/her. So we have two identities which are social identity and private identity. Social identity is our identity that conforms to the public rules but private identity is our inner voice, our conscience.

People can’t be tolerant to others for their different beliefs, thoughts or appearance. So we can’t be free. We can’t do the things we believe in or we want. We are afraid of being marginalized. Before doing something, we start to think “ What will they think or what will they say?”. How many of you can live the life without caring about others’ thoughts?

Many people want to live far from city centers. Because all of us are aware of our double identities. We can’t even know ourselves. As human beings, we have the ability to think and as everyone is different by nature, we should respect others.