What is Freedom (to you)?


Is it the freedom to drink alcohol?

Is it the freedom of speech?

Is it the freedom to buy and own guns?

Is it the freedom to organize a strike to bring down the economy?

Is it the freedom to instigate hate?

Is it the freedom to dress in whatever way you want?

Is it the freedom to preach your religion?

Is it the freedom of killing innocents?

Is it the freedom of bringing law into your own hands?

 

Is freedom capitalism?

Is freedom democracy?

Is freedom less government?

 

Does freedom means that you don’t have to take responsibility for what you say on line?

Does freedom means the rule of the majority?

Does freedom means having elections?

Does freedom means having lobbies, unions and special interest groups to represent all minorities?

 

Or, is Freedom just the simple ability of being able to bring up a family in a safe environment?

The freedom to go to work?

The freedom to take the public transport?

The freedom to go to school?

The freedom to not have to fear for your life?

 


The next time you talk about freedom, think before you leap. Will your form of freedom result in thousands of deaths? Will your form of freedom result in no freedom for the millions of simple folks who just want to bring up a family.

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About my name, Candilin

In recent years, I have come to realise that my name 'Candilin' has been used by others. Once in a while I run checks on my name on Google to see what it turns up with. Recently I find people with the same names. There is also an anti-fungi drug in my name!
As such I thought I should at least tell you where my name Candilin came from, in case you think I am a copier, instead of the originator.
When I was 12 years old (some 30 years ago!), I started using the nickname of Candy because at that time there was a famous Japanese anime called Candy Candy. But then I thought the name to be a little too common and wanting to be special, I tried to modify that name into something original. My first penpal was named Adeline, and I thought girls' name should end with a 'line' like hers. So I played with adding 'line' to Candy, and in grammar, we learnt that by changing a noun to plural, 'y' becomes 'i', I changed Candy to Candiline. My name was Candiline for sometime until I dropped the 'e' at the back so that people would stop pronouncing it as Can-di-line, instead of Can-di-lin.
That was how I came up with my name 'Candilin' 32 years back. Maybe someone somewhere too came up with this name on his or her own, and I really don't mind. I just want to clarify that I did not copy my name from somewhere, I invented it!