A little one on one with my bird
I bought a caged finch in Japan years ago. I took it home and left the cage door open so it could fly around if it wished. It wouldn’t. It just stayed contentedly in its cage. Weeks or months (I forget which) passed before it ventured out. I left the window open too, and soon it would go out, fly about, and return home. The Bird stayed away longer and longer until one day it didn’t return.
I notice a parallel here between me and that bird. I spent years, more or less inside civilization’s paradigm, venturing out of society’s cultural cage from time to time. Continue reading ‘Where Is Freedom?’
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