An opinion about life

Life happens. This is a famous saying but what if I told you we make life happen? Sounds like common sense, right? The idea is that you can wiled your destiny according to your heart’s desire. So then, what’s the problem? Why does it feel like life is happening to us? While there are many answers to this, I would like to urge that there are too many controls like the controls we place on ourselves mentally.

You know, the “what will people think” control, “the what if I fail” control, just do not get me started on the you “have to be this and that ‘control.

Settle controls but they get the job of constricting our actions, dreams and ambitions done. Many of these controls come from our society, governments, teachers, and parents but am not here to shift blame.

These controls cause us to go through the day having many decisions but most of them not being our own, we choose what we think others would have chosen. You all know what am talking about, that good old-fashioned peer pressure. Admit it, it still happens to most of us.

How we dress, what we eat, how we do our hair dos. When we buy a house and get married, these have already been decided for us. I do not have all the answers to free mankind from all these restrictions but I know that finding something one is passionate about and going for it can give a prisoner behind bars more freedom than a freeman imprisoned by society and worst of all his own mind. For the prisoner behind bars is making life happen and the freeman? Well, life is just happening to him.