03 July, 2008

Have you ever felt like you were walking a predetermined path? As if every single step you made was on someone else's footprints? More like your bare feet were touching the exact spaces they were meant to, not one centimeter out of place? If this is true, then where is our free will, the power of our own choices?
When I was just a baby, my fairy godmother wove my path in life, and I, while growing up, never disappointed here by straying off of it. This is a fairytale like scenario that in real life would be just a disillusion. Where is the joy, the accomplishment, the pride in doing exactly what you are supposed to?
Carrying on this sort of existence would only lead to catastrophe. If you take away our freedom to choose between good and bad, between light and darkness, you take away the very thing that defines us as humans. Maybe the choices that we make are just delusions, given by our subconscious minds, because without them, we would stop existing, but in the end, isn't this what makes reality that much sweeter?
Could you live in a world without options? Could you go down this road, knowing that it is the only one you can walk on? Would you be able to exist without alternatives?
I don't know...It would be liberating, but at the same time, I would feel trapped in a cage of my own creation. The choices made in advance would be the bars keeping me inside, and the will to escape, the wings that will help me fly.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

we're all trapped in cages, we were born trapped in them..and we are living without seeing them around us.
we just feel like some captive animals. only these cages aren't influenced by our choices..
hope that you'll find your wings;)

Anonymous said...

"The world we knew
Won't come back
The time we've lost
Can't get back
The life we had
Won't be ours again" ("Never Too Late" - Three Days Grace)