They didn’t teach us what freedom is, they taught us how to die for it!

They didn’t teach us what freedom is, they taught us how to die for it!

RUBA AYYASH

“They didn’t teach us what freedom is, they taught us how to die for it.” A sentence that came across me and made me pause for a moment to think. It is true that in many societies man learns how to die for freedom, not how to live it, and death becomes an end, whereas freedom could have been a full life.

Could societies have redefined the meaning of freedom, their responsibilities, duties and limits, so that they exercise freedom in their daily lives, before they get to the big issues?

Freedom begins with freedom of opinion, thought and belief, from respect for the other who may be completely different, and from the ability to coexist with diversity and difference without cancellation or humiliation. This is where the meaning of belonging comes in.

When a person honestly belongs to an idea, a goal, or a project, belonging becomes a bridge between his daily life and his freedom. Belonging can give freedom its true form. That is.. When a person is aware of his purpose and lives his belonging by his will, he experiences freedom in his actions and dignity, and makes his daily life and rituals a reflection of the goal he believes in. Belonging, then, is not a restriction, but a means of embodying freedom in reality.

People deserve to learn how to live freedom, not just how to die for it. Of course, the cause of political games and the lack of justice and humanity in the world order is thrown people against their will into places where they have no choice but to die in a terrifying hell.

But before we get to the bottom, freedom could have been a way of life, embodied in the details of one’s daily life, in respect for the other, and in consciously belonging to an idea or project that gives man meaning and dignity.

RUBA AYYASH: Multimedia Journalist @ Sky News Arabia ; Master’s in Journalism, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

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