By
keeping our windows open, we allow new circumstances to get
in and out of us, provoking small or large whirlwinds. That
does not matter: what ought to be
of importance to us is the use of that experience to become
freer; to open our minds to new circumstances, to new challenges,
to new life experiences, without
limiting ourselves just because of the fact that we do not want
to open our window and set off in search of freedom.
It
is something that we have at hand, but we mask it with big or
small whirlwinds, and we forget that they are to be lived; no
matter how large they look or how dizzy we feel, they will pass
by very soon. Freedom is something that can only be exercised
by us: no one will give it or lend it to us, and no one can
take it away from us. It is only us who can use it, and if we
were to stay within the whirlwind, we would be in a situation
of libertinism, be it of too much work, too much idleness, too
much hatred, too much boredom, and so forth.
These
opposing forces must give us the balance to go out in search
of our freedom, which is not that from society, nor that from
our family, not that from our work, but only that from ourselves.
ULISES A. CASTRO
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