Freedom, can't live with it, can't live without it.
Here it is: You are free to pick your nose at the intersection, log on to late night computer porn... and/ or give 40% of your income to the people working on ending AIDS in Africa.
You are free to die after living a meaningless, self-indulgent life where nothing but your latest desire was satisfied... or you are free to embark on a life of serving the poor of India as they die ala Mother Theresa.
And anywhere on that scale between the two. You just, well, get to choose.
Most of the time this adds up to far less significant issues like, are you gonna eat another donut? Do you open the door for that man behind you even though it is cold out and that causes you to wait 3 seconds more at the door? Do you pick up the wrapper on the ground, or drop your own next to it? Do you take a second look at the man or woman in line at the grocery store because you like what you see? Do you take the close parking spot or do you walk another 20 yards and leave the good one for the next guy...
Put all that together - a few average moments on earth - and you either get to be a guy who is healthy, conscientious, faithful, and self-sacrificing....
OR you are a guy who is unhealthy, brusque, consumptive, pervy and aggressive.
And that, my friends, is freedom.
Here it is: You are free to pick your nose at the intersection, log on to late night computer porn... and/ or give 40% of your income to the people working on ending AIDS in Africa.
You are free to die after living a meaningless, self-indulgent life where nothing but your latest desire was satisfied... or you are free to embark on a life of serving the poor of India as they die ala Mother Theresa.
And anywhere on that scale between the two. You just, well, get to choose.
Most of the time this adds up to far less significant issues like, are you gonna eat another donut? Do you open the door for that man behind you even though it is cold out and that causes you to wait 3 seconds more at the door? Do you pick up the wrapper on the ground, or drop your own next to it? Do you take a second look at the man or woman in line at the grocery store because you like what you see? Do you take the close parking spot or do you walk another 20 yards and leave the good one for the next guy...
Put all that together - a few average moments on earth - and you either get to be a guy who is healthy, conscientious, faithful, and self-sacrificing....
OR you are a guy who is unhealthy, brusque, consumptive, pervy and aggressive.
And that, my friends, is freedom.