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I grew up believing that freedom meant doing whate

I grew up believing that freedom meant doing whatever you want, whenever you want. That freedom meant the absence of limits: first of all physical, material.
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I was wrong. The true freedom neither starts there, nor ends.
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The true freedom is when your decisions are truly yours. When your actions and thoughts don't expect an approval or encouragement. When you speak your mind without fear to loose something, or someone. When you are GENERALLY not afraid to loose anything, because you know it's impossible to loose the only thing that is yours: your soul.
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You can roam the world and have all the desires at your finger tips, but your head might feel like it's squeeshed in a mouse trap. Wherever you go, whatever you do, its wires keep pressing against the temples of your head. You might think you jump between continents because you just want to, like a free bird. In reality, you choose the next destination, based on where, you think, the pressure on you head might subside. It's not you taking the decision, it's that mouse trap. So where is the freedom?
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Is freedom something that can be learned, not granted?
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#freedom #freewill #freesoul

Once upon a time a girl got a magic wand. By accid

Once upon a time a girl got a magic wand. By accident. She never asked for one, but there it was, in her hands.

She'd heard, she could do anything she wanted with it. She could paint the entire world in the colors she liked, or start with small steps, with whatever was next to her. But to know for sure if it would work, she'd need to try.

So there she was, sitting with the magic wand on her lap. Thinking. 💫 "Surely, I wasn't the first person to get the wand, just like that. What did others do with it?" 💫 "For this thing to work I'd need to say the words I don't know and do the moves I can't do. Won't it look silly?" 💫 "It looks so heavy. To lift it and paint the ornaments in the air I'd need to make my muscles strong. I might even break my back in the process. Is it really worth it?" _
The magic wand looked really pretty, it was hard to take the eyes off. The entire two days the girl spent looking at the magic wand, thinking, trying to decide, what was the right thing to do.

On the third day, feeling exhausted from so much fruitless thinking, the girl finally took a decision. Relieved, she decided that for now, it would look best on her bookshelf, next to unread books with pretty covers. 💫 "Do I really need to do anything with it?", she thought, "I never even asked for it after all"

She stretched her hand to place an unwanted souvenir on a dusty wooden shelf just in front of her. Something bright flashed on the wand, reflecting the window light right into her eyes.

In tiny letters, on the left bottom corner, there was a text, engraved in golden letters. "Expiry date: yesterday." And then in even smaller letters, just below: "The probability of you receiving this wand is estimated as 1 in 400 trillion." ____________ ☀️ The probability of us being born is estimated as 1 in 400 trillion. Not valuing this time and space is like turning a magic wand into a souvenir ☀️

I know there are a lot of parents of young kids am

I know there are a lot of parents of young kids among my friends here. I have a question you you. It's about so-called "boundaries" and your experience with them.
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There are a lot of conversations now about setting the right boundaries with kids from the very beginning. So that they respect certain areas, know what's allowed and what's not, and generally don't become the centre of the universe and let their parents live their lives.
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Recently, I listened to an interesting lecture from a well-known psychologist (in Russian). She shared that a lot of parents come to her practice with a near nervous breakdown. The reason for it: they feel an enormous pressure to put boundaries with their kids, but they fail to do so. So, their kids don't sleep when they are supposed to sleep, don't eat when (and what, and how) they are supposed to eat, throw unreasonable tantrums etc. The society tells these parents that they are not creating the right boundaries, because they don't put enough of the right effort. So parents feel as a total failure.
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According to this psychologist, there is no such thing as "boundaries" for children under 5. She believes it's a term from a previous generation, which is being "sold" in the modern reality. However, 50 years ago, a slap or two for a kid were a norm for the sake of discipline, and it served as a tool for those boundaries. Nowadays conscious parents are well-equipped with the knowledge how the wrong actions and words in childhood can ruin a person's life, so the "tools" like slaps, screams and threats are out of question. Yet, the boundaries have to be set.
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So, what she means, is that it's ok if boundaries are not working out at a young age, and that in fact they are unrealistic expectations. Given that the loving and healthy environment is created, and the basic interests of the kids are followed , the kids will grow out of the rest. Otherwise many parents suffer from the inability to set the boundaries more than from the lack of those boundaries, and so do their children (as children are the mirror of the emotional state of their care givers).
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My current experience with a small kid, and observation of others.. 👇

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