Meaning of FREEDOM
Freedom would be defined different by a person based on what culture he/she belongs to, what society he/she belongs to, what are his/her life principles, how he/she looks at the value of human life.
To easily understand the meaning of Freedom, we can divide it in 4 parts.
1. Respect for responsibility for yourself – First of all, freedom asks you to be responsible and respect your own responsibility. First, we must take responsibility for ourselves. We must take care of our actions and behaviors. We cannot act like without consequences in our life. We act and then there would be some consequences for that action, we must know about it. And, it applies to all ages, whether an adult or a kid. If, we take responsibility of our action, we would be independent and be careful of our actions effecting others.
we must expect everyone taking responsibility of themselves; it does matter what gender or age we are talking about.
Positive sides of respecting responsibility for yourself
a. You would never blame others for your failure and challenges.
b. You would never expect anything from others and wait for others to pull you out of the mess.
c. People would respect you being responsible and consider you as an icon.
d. Kids would show more matured behavior ( which most of adults do not even expect from kids at an early age), which ultimately would help you in taking care of them.
2. Respect for responsibility for others – When we live in a society where we share some responsibilities and we have our own responsibilities too. Other members (all genders, all age category , all religions, all groups, all races of human) of the society must have some responsibility too to have peace, harmony and a successful society.
Positive sides of respecting responsibility for others
a. You would respect others for being responsible.
b. It would peace and harmony in the society.
c. Other person would feel proud and equal.
3. Respect for equality for yourself – Everything in life starts from yourself, so does seeking and respecting equality for yourself.
A person shall respect and love himself/herself and seek equality like other people. When you respect equality from others for yourself, then only people would take you seriously and give it to you. Sometimes, you might have to fight/protest to seek equality for yourself; Example —
Taliban does not consider men and women equal in terms of education, travelling, shopping, marriage. A person who respects her equality would have to fight back to get it from others. In developed society, people would respect your equality; so culture and society makes a difference how equality is being perceived and shared.
Positive sides of respecting equality for yourself
a. You would confident and proud to be a part of respectful society.
b. You would be motivated to give your inputs in the society.
c. You would be able to focus on positive things/activities and would be more successful.
4. Respect for equality for others – Other people (regardless of their caste, creed, religious belief, gender, minority or majority) also expect equality like you and they must deserve it, and at the same time you must respect that equality for others too. Equality is being shared; when you expect equality from others, you have to give that equality to others too.
In the human history, wise people have fight a war for the equality of other people too. Example – –
When African-american people were not given equal rights, a fight started, and many other people joined them in their fight to make sure that there is a respect for equality for others too.
A lot of friction/fight/tussle still happening to make sure that respect for equality for others and yourself is being achieved.
Positive sides of respecting equality for others
a. Other people would feel that society respect them as a member of society.
b. Other people would contribute equality to bring prosperity, peace and harmony in the family and society.
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