freedom

december 2010 i decided to stop doing what i did and start doing what i want to do.
january 2011, the idea came to me that i wanted to make a documentary on freedom.
what is freedom?

being involved in the subject actively for almost 6 months now i have build an opinion on the subject.
i asked a lot of people on the streets "what is freedom to you?" most of them answer "freedom is doing whatever i want to do." at first i thought it was a quite easy or cheap answer, but not anymore because that answer brings up the question of questions: "what do i want to do??!!!"

what do i want to do?
maybe i could use a break, a nice meal, a good party, a steaming night or a trip around the world. we can all use these things once in a while, but they are no definite answers to the question : what do i want to do?
this question implies: what do i WANT to live for? what can i do for years and years because i know i am very good at it. not because i studied it, but because i've always been very good at it. as a matter of fact there is nobody that can do this better than me.

that brings us to an even more interesting question: who am i?
a few days ago, this question really hit me. what a strange question? i answer this question often when people ask. i know the answer. but do i really? we are so used to take our lives for granted. everything we know is normal because we've never known something else. by interacting with others we could come to a point where we see that our own life is unique, that everybody has its own 'normalities', that everybody takes something else for granted.

that ultimately brings me to freedom.
being free is being the best you can be.
being free is being that person that you were born to be.
being free is being connected with your true self, your true nature.
being free is being connected with nature, mother earth and all its fruits.

there's only one way to change the world and that's to change yourself.
there's only one way to change the world and that's to become free.