Freedom to Imagine

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” 

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Freedom - The very base of our existence, the very mechanism of nature which straightens the existence into harmonious living amongst all. Who doesn’t like to be free? No one wants to be bounded either physically or emotionally, we are the prime species of living things on Earth, and we strive to live with our thoughts being free and easy to be expressed and without being judged. Another instance at the summer camps, where the independent beliefs are really the first priority, that ability to speak and suggest freely. KIDS, wild imaginations, freedom thought processes, without judgements and vague perceptions like the “matured”. We hate being judged and like to be accepted as we are to the world, so talk to a kid about it, “see” the difference!
A certain moment I would like to share is the activity of telling a story on a random topic and continuing it along by the other students in a circle, starting with, “Reeta goes to a fest with his Nana ji, and goes on a ride, soon she loses the sight of him, she was worried and began finding her”, and the kids were asked to continue the story upon their imagination followed by what should have been done, everyone had interesting stories to tell along. Some even included, “Uske nanaji ko aliens utha ke le ga
ye the, tabhi wo ghum ho gaye the”, “bhoot the uske nanaji”(hahahah).
At the end all were asked what should have been done to avoid or cope such situations, the responses were spot on, “sir reeta pagal hai sir, bina btaye jhula lene chli gyi, aise ni krna chahiye tha usse”, “jo bhi karo batake karo badon ko”, “usse nanaji ko btake jana chahiye tha” and so on. Every one had a view based on their thoughts, either to change the story or to present an advice. The teachers also had various advices to suggest and the activity paid off well crossing the expectation figures.
We need a way to vent out the mental slavery that we have enclosed ourselves in, the boundations that we have engraved ourselves with are too deep to be replaced now, but we need a change, a step to start, to initiate the journey to the enigmatic hallway of freedom, let’s again look at the kids and learn.