LIFE IN ESSENCE … Freedom or Controlled?

During pandemic time and being parts and distance from family and things that used to be easy (easier) and normal (not as crazy), including your freedom and how you think about life… here are some of my thoughts.

I realized a lot of things in life are pretty useless and a waste of time. Would you rather be inside office or doing retails selling products, work yourself like crazy or actually just run to the beach and enjoy freedom with natures?

If LIFE is about freedom to experiencing the world and life itself, ideally we should not be too focus on “becoming rich” or “earning enough”. We should be really looking into enjoying life.

I even started to feel mad because my brain started to ask: “what is enjoying life”? Traveling? Meeting people? Trying new hobbies? Learn new language? Well all of those suddenly cut from your life. The thought of things might not get back to normal (unless vaccinated, blah blah) especially in Australia when things can just go back to lockdown again all of sudden just because of some idiocy of invisible covid infections.

If I have a lot of money during pandemic, would that allows me to have special permission to travel? Maybe. But isn’t it weird, because you also have this in mind: you might catch covid or your family or friends might catch covid and die any days. Isn’t this crazy?

It’s weird because lots of things in life indeed requires a lot of money to get access into (good house, good food, good quality products, etc). Life must be simpler back in the day of people going to farm or to fish. Maybe living in the city is the issue? Don’t we just need access to things in life? What if all of the access taken from your and your life suddenly like living inside prison?

Like many of you, I was born in the city and conditioned to life and breath inside the city and like a living creature, we actually have to feed the city, and live with whatever provided inside the city.

It must be happier to be far away from the city, if you can and really away from this “pandemic”? Some people actually do that, run to regional area, or maybe like in New Zealand or Tasmania, island that’s covid-free.

Are we (or myself) conditioned to live our life like we always do? Study hard so you can enter good university, become the best, stress yourself until you can compete with others to get a good jobs, earn enough money so you can earn enough so you can find the right partner, have family and so on?

Often we look at celebrities, all these billionaires, even some politicians, world leaders, top athletes, designers, artists, writers, all those people living their life like Gods. As amazing as they are, I don’t think they are quite something without being put in spotlight and actually got the supports from their fans and their sponsors. Of course they actually work hard to get into that positions. Some actually do. And it’s hard works to earn the golds, is still true but it’s getting harder and harder. During pandemic, you could see clearly how celebrities tried to go into YouTube and showing their life from the inside. Their struggle (as a person, with family, just trying to be normal…). Even big names celebrities find it hard to stay exist and famous.

Sometimes I think that underneath all those, all and every person wants is probably happiness, love, freedom, meet enough lovely people, have a bit of time to do what they love to do in life.

I am hoping that tomorrow, one day, you can do what you love to do, have full freedom, and gain enough appreciation from others, to be happy, and to have your own freedom again without having to worry about being fined or controlled.