Bobby1
July 12, 2017, 3:41am
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Re: Freedom = loneliness
Ironically on my drive home on the radio they were talking about how today was “cheering up a lonely person” day. They said loneliness usually happens when people are depressed, and isolate themselves.
I don’t know how freedom and loneliness co-relate. I think you can be free and lonely and free and unlonely and lonely and not free. To be “free” in my opinion is to have Allah in your heart and the world in your hand. That is true freedom from all of life’s desires. To be lonely is to not find joy and contentment when connecting with others. To feel like you are alone and there is no support system around you. Maybe it can be when we don’t appreciate the people around us, and don’t want them to be a part of our life nor share their sorrows and happiness by being a part of theirs.
Socrates said that all we need in life is one person to love and one to love us back. I think finding that one person and not really worrying about what others think of you and living life on your own terms is freedom.