Some people would claim that if someone is born in a world where slavery no longer exists, and in a family where the economic status is descent without any lack of resources to satisfy only the human necessities, that person is totally free; however, it is not like that. Even though we have pleasing lives, we live in a society which has a set of rules and norms that limit our behavior, therefore unintentionally violating our innate right to absolute freedom.
Our society works like a net, where all the threads are reasonably put in a specific location apart from each other to construct this enormous, but harmonic structure. This complex allows us to get along with the rest of the crowd so that we can coexist peacefully and avoid conflicts. Constantly we have to be cautious about how we act so that we are not excluded or regarded as unfit individuals by the majority of society members. We become worried and afraid about what people may think about us as we are repeatedly reprehended by others for they believe to know what it is best for us, or what is right and what it’s not. Then we start functioning as just one more brick on the wall, because we no longer live for our on purpose, but rather, we live to serve and satisfy others losing our own identity as individuals. Therefore we must not let others shape and determine our actions, we must be our own bosses, we have to be brave enough to escape that masked slavery to truly be ourselves. Let us act “out of the ordinary” and break those rules and norms that supposedly are there to establish harmony but at the same time deter the human individuality as they set up limits to our character. Only by doing so are we able to call ourselves free.
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