The Price of Freedom
What is happiness to me? Happiness is helping others and seeing their happiness radiating through their faces; being free; listening to unexpectedly good music; being free; the crisp, quiet wind blowing in my face while I close my eyes and walk in the dark; being free and being surrounded with people who are positive. And did I mention being free? It is not only because I want to emulate my favourite ever heroine, Jane Eyre “ I am a free human being ” but because it is exhausting beyond comprehension being chained to the wishes of a society of which values I abhor (at least some of them). Truth be told, there has to be a balance between being completely ‘free’ and not because it can become a precarious and slippery situation. Yet, in general, I believe society can be pretty confining. In Kenya, and in the first few days in Malta, I was experiencing a natural ‘high’. I was feeling free. Free from the contaminations of society, free from negative thinking, free fr...