If anything that I have done worthwhile lately in my life is choosing freedom, I chose to disregard the caged thinking. Caged thinking is nothing but functioning from the limited thinking of others. We are surrounded by tangible and nontangible cages. Be it caged job, caged relationships, caged society we live in and the most dangerous one is the caged mind. I think the caged mind is the most destroying one.
All my life I had heard from my family, friends, and teachers that get a job and then you are settled for life. You have money and then you can buy a lot of stuff and appear successful. It was not my fault, but it was the conditioning that made me choose a corporate cage. Sometimes the feed was low quality and sometimes high and I trained myself to become a perfect corporate zombie. The impact was nothing much, but I lost the memories of my natural gifts, talents, self-confidence all in the name of a good job.
Relationships are quite a crucial part of our social life. There were stages in my life where friendship demanded me to blend and chose conformity so that I am accepted. Not my fault again, society conditioning of acceptance. Nothing happened much, but I lost the real version of me all in the name of a good friend. Real and high-quality friendship will always accept you the way you are and the way you are not. The principles must be based on inclusion and not exclusion- just because you didn’t follow the rules. Anything that doesn’t allow me to be my real self puts me into caged relations.
Society gave me tips and tricks to operate from the rights and wrongs, good and bad, successful and unsuccessful, and ended up believing that that is the only way to live. Nothing much happened but it caused social anxiety through a self-destroying question, what will society think? The moment I am ashamed of my choices puts me in a society cage.
Here comes the most dangerous one, MIND. My mind’s duty has been always to tell me that I am not good enough and I cannot dream. It trained me into becoming a good quality player in the game called survival. Again nothing much happened, it caused me to become a slave of my mind and reject my intuitions of living a life of freedom.
I feel we all are born to be free and not prisoners of beautiful-looking cages, the birds in the cages may not have the choice, but humans do.
