Freedom moves the will to live; safety, to survive. Freedom brings joy, but also insecurity that causes anguish. Security brings comfort, but also restraint, which also generates anxiety. So back to the beginning: freedom or safety?
Living safely released a statement seems somewhat poetic and superficial, since one thing always affects another viscerally. Perhaps the best way is to evaluate what we are willing to restrict liberty in the name of security. But this proposition also fails because, besides being subjective, is inconclusive. And for a mere expectation of safety, since there is no full security, we pay a high price charged when our instinctive desire for unrestricted freedom. That is: we want the freedom to live, but as a rule, we humbly opted for the security to survive.
At this point, both the ideology and its cousin, the alienation, lend themselves to minimize the fact that, deep down, life is not much more than just survive, because every one wants to give meaning to life beyond their own survival, not merely a romanticization that relieves the pressure of ceaseless struggle that is to survive physically and emotionally.
Living safely released a statement seems somewhat poetic and superficial, since one thing always affects another viscerally. Perhaps the best way is to evaluate what we are willing to restrict liberty in the name of security. But this proposition also fails because, besides being subjective, is inconclusive. And for a mere expectation of safety, since there is no full security, we pay a high price charged when our instinctive desire for unrestricted freedom. That is: we want the freedom to live, but as a rule, we humbly opted for the security to survive.
At this point, both the ideology and its cousin, the alienation, lend themselves to minimize the fact that, deep down, life is not much more than just survive, because every one wants to give meaning to life beyond their own survival, not merely a romanticization that relieves the pressure of ceaseless struggle that is to survive physically and emotionally.
Olá, Djalma,
ReplyDeleteolha onde vim te encontrar, pois não tenho Facebook e acabo meio alienada... rs. Por falar nisso, agradeço por divulgar o parágrafo de meu post - a que se referiu - em sua página. Como não tenho perfil por lá, sempre fico grata qdo alguém divulga meus escritos... obrigada!
Sobre o seu texto, concordo que as duas coisas estão estreitamente ligadas. Voluntariamente restringi minha liberdade em troca de me sentir segura, o que considero essencial. Mas tenho consciência do quando perco ao me esconder garantindo que a segurança se perpetue...
Abraço!
Oi, Jussara! Só hoje, passados 4 anos, li seu comentário! É que essa versão em inglês do meu blog ficou esquecida (a escrita em português é que mantenho ativa). Tudo bem com vc? Abraço
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