Carte Blanche- A Story Of Freedom

 Hello Readers

 

How are you today? Hope you are just keeping yourself cheerful and dandy!

 

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

- Shaheed Bhagat Singh

 

What can we do and what we cannot, is defined by a simple word “freedom”.

 

The word  free is existent since the beginning of time.

 

It has been there even before we came into the picture, I wouldn’t say the world doesn’t have rules, it does, and those rules are defined by force, nature and I consider nature as a mother and the whole world and the things in it as her children.

 

It is a cycle; actually, there is no mercy in the way the world works, life and death are considered the same by nature, one sunrise other is twilight.

 

Humans divided themselves as fruitarians and non-vegetarians, that is only when civilization came to existence, and when we learnt to cultivate plants and could make sense of what is edible.

 

Okay! Turning the wheel of time a little bit forward, we are all civilized, and the dark ages and the benighted ages are over!

 

The world is now moved towards the industrial revolution, and with the help of mighty vessels and steamers, people started exploring the world and finding new sea-routes and trading beyond borders.

 

By now, some have realized where I am getting to, if some of you guessed if it is remotely related to colonization and our freedom struggle, Bravo! You are right.

 

The typical way forward from this point is to talk about the various invasions on India from the various western, Turkish and many more Kings and cantonments and finally, the Brits settling here for almost most of of their lives, putting India into deep poverty, slavery and turmoil and finally the mutiny which got us freedom.

 

But I would like to talk about something other than the usual, in the light of the freedom and Independence Day, which we just celebrated for the 73rd time yesterday.

 

Freedom- Simple, isn’t it? What are the first thoughts you get when you listen to this word freedom?

 

Clapping your hands in bliss and running in a cornfield? Or a pigeon flying high up in the sky?

 

Well, they are depictions or perceptions or the thoughts which are injected to us by watching so many movies!

 

When I think about freedom, I don’t get such fancy thoughts or images atleast now, I look at what it has costed to experience this freedom today?

 

The sacrifices are what revolves around my head! Followed by the mindset.

 

The mindset of the people who decided to fight against what kept us handcuffed, enslaved, and bootlegged.

 

Have we realized their level of maturity, their organization skills, planning, management and the heroism fluxed with emotions for their motherland?

 

I would say all the freedom fighters, I do not want to mention names because if one selected a diplomatic way to get us freedom, another picked up a howitzer.

 

But finally, they had one thing in common, a country which could spread its wings and fly the way it wanted.

 

India removed its shackles and became free from the colonists in 1947.

 

Just one day after our Independence Day, let us respect the essence of freedom and realize what has it taken to reach here.

 

Courtesy Google images

 

If today you can do whatever you want, there is people’s effort, pain, blood, and sacrifice behind it.

 

The Idea of free India is just brilliant, but the effort it has taken to reach till here is a herculean effort, we all need to work and move in the directions these elders thought us to, for they are the only ones whom I consider as elders!

 

Let us all always keep that in mind and respect those selfless, heroic souls.

 

Finally, let us not satisfy ourselves and enter a comfortable space. 

 

There is still a lot to be done and take our country to new heights, lets us all be only partially satisfied so that we keep on improving our motherland.

 

Wishing you all freedom and happiness.

 

Thanks a lot for your time, have a great day ahead.

Helios