This Independence Day, we asked parents to share their child’s thoughts on Freedom in any way they want to.
Here is our Fan Mrs. Rekha Ram’s daughters essay on ‘Freedom’. She is in the 9th grade.
Freedom
For centuries the word “freedom” has been a topic of debate, and for good reason. There are so many different views of what freedom truly means and what influences it has on our daily lives. Freedom is the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint. Freedom is a world ideal. To me, the word freedom is being able to achieve anything you want to. It is being able to change your surrounding environment how you want it to be.
Many questions have been asked about whether we are truly free of constraints or if everything is predetermined by events that have already transpired. Some believe that it is indeed true that we are not free, that nothing happens freely, and that nothing happens by chance, everything is determined to happen precisely as it does down to the smallest detail. If this statement is true then we are not free, we live a life of predetermined events.
With freedom, come inevitable rights: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the freedoms to take your life in whatever direction you feel fit. Freedom is full of choices, choices every individual can make themselves. Freedom builds an educated country when everyone can learn lessons from their own mistakes and the mistakes of others. There must be rules to conform to, but there must be enough freedom to leave room for mistakes. If everyone were perfect, no one could learn anything new.
Freedom should not be a privilege; it should be a natural part of every human’s life. Yet, today in this day and age, freedom is a privilege. Freedom is a natural part of every person’s life often taken for granted, but still freedom remains as much of a challenge as it was 200 years ago.
Today freedom continues to lead its own challenge. Freedom calls us to take care of governments and run them as democratically as possible. Freedom challenges the world to rethink its thoughts. To let every individual have the right to anything they desire as long as they can obtain it without harming or harassing any other individual’s rights. Freedom’s challenge; a challenge for our country and all of the countries of the world, to live their own life, to be their own person, to seize the opportunity set before them and live, laugh and love life.
If your child too has a view on Freedom, send it to us at writeforus@educationisinsurance.com and we will feature it on our blog
