on the fly

The heck with my pages of notes in Word, I'm writing this one on the fly. Taking my own advice and letting the words tumble down.

It isn't a hard thing to do. Not hard at all.

Not much different than the way so many of us live our lives. Get in a groove and hold on. Can't be bothered with thinking of the next thing to do when I'm trying to work out the last thing to do.

Endless string of uncompleted ideas. Always something to do on the house. Always something to do for the kids. Always something to do for someone or something. Doesn't anyone or anything become independent anymore?

If you were young again would you choose to create a small tribe of dependents? Have you ever, and I do mean ever, been neither dependent nor depended on?

I can't imagine. Wouldn't know what to do. That is something like freedom. We talk about it but we don't really have it.

Freedom is not being entangled in dependencies. Freedom is not being attached to anything or anyone. Absolute freedom is not something most of us would choose and if we did it probably would only be temporary.

It would be, however, a great experience. It would place demands on us that we would not find otherwise.

It might be scary to have a mortgage but it is a shared kind of experience. If you were completely free you would be alone in a city of a million people.

A bird in the air might be free but it is in its nature to come back to earth.

Ultimately freedom is the ability to make the choice not to be truly free.