We can never be free but we have freedom

To imply that we are free is to say that it is not necessary to really desire or think but we just “are”. Life however is full of choices which necessarily require decisions: and that does not make us ‘free’, just free to make decisions.

This is the difference between we animals that have this thing, ironically called “free will and other animals which are in the moment. Untethered by free will they just ‘do’ in the moment. The eat, procreate, run, die without the restriction of decisions.

A decision requires a need and a need implies a lack of choice. If we need something -a decision to be made for example– then we are, at the point of decision, required to do something. Being required to do something, by definition is lack of freedom.

Now, you may be thinking that you are free to make decisions, and you would be right.
The best we can have in life is the freedom to make decisions and most of us would fight to the death for that right.
Some of us have fought to the death for that right to be given to all people.

Endlessly search for freedom, in other words, searching to be free is a mug’s game.

There is no winner, least of all our-selves.
As organic life forms in a body, our freedom has its restrictions: Once you let that striving to be free go, ironically, you have freedom