This DON'T Feel LIKE Freedom

“If you’re comfortable while you’re doing it, (you’re) probably doing it wrong.“
-Ted Lasso
 

The word “Freedom” binds so many layers of our existence, from the physical being, to our expression, to belief, to speech and even to the freedom from fear, itself. I’ve come to define Freedom as a delivery system from one state of being to another, regardless of restraint, hinderance or harm, that fulfills what is desired. This is also how I define the word Love. Love also carries you to another state of being. It is the peace created within oneself that allows you to transcend due to ferry, follow or force. Yet freedom and love are fleeting, much like air. We can’t live without them and we never truly feel we have them, completely. It’s like trying to catch “your wind”, when you do finally breathe in, you find yourself alive, present and aware. It is impermanent. A next breath is required…and another and another. Your breath requires you to be present and aware. Freedom and Love require attention you must be present and aware for both. The two leave no space for indifference, negligence, or intolerance.
 

THIS DON’T FEEL LIKE FREEDOM begs you all to question the space our humanity currently resides in. We are subject to so much indifference, negligence and intolerance via social media, the internet, tv and even in our day to day interactions. Hopefully, we are questioning the cost. Can we gain insight and possibly learn how to get to a place where there is no constant feeling, as if we have become unmoored, as if something is missing or lost individually, culturally or as a society? All of which exacerbates fear, in turn making it harder to catch “your wind”. We are distracted. Freedom and love do not come without attention, which is not easy. The work questions whether we can create a space utilizing patience, understanding and empathy in order for us all to be evermore present, aware and alive.

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” - Nelson Mandela