It’s been 79 years since India gained its independence. But have we, as individuals, truly found ours?
We celebrate our political freedom, but have we embraced personal and societal freedom? From once fighting as a united front, today we find ourselves divided by identity, belief, regional differences and ego.
We are all prisoners of our mind, either to the notion of caste, creed, language, technology, addiction, societal norms, patriarchy and more.
I often wonder what our leaders of the past would think looking at the way we use freedom today. Independence was meant to liberate us. But in many ways, we’ve simply shifted from one kind of dependence to another.
We are in-dependence of law and order to behave
We are in-dependence of societal approval to live life
We are in-dependence of social apps to feel connected
We are in-dependence of emojis to express emotions
We are in-dependence of penalties to act responsibly
Are we truly independent? Or are we constantly in-dependence of smaller things that should never have power over a free mind?