What would you do, when someone locks you inside a room? You would try to get out? You will try to find a way out. If you do not see any other opening which can lead to the free world, you will try to scream, so that if someone could hear could come to your rescue. You try your best to get out. Why did you do that? Because you are brave enough to fight. If someone does not fight for own freedom, then he/she does not feel brave as they are unable to gather the courage to fight back. Even a small kid, when sometimes locked by parents as a punishment (I am just considering it as a point, however, I do not support this punishment.) also tries his best to come out of that. He would cry hard so that he can be unlocked. If a child has the courage everyone else has too. However, when we grow this courage washes away. We are brought up to live under restrictions. These restrictions bring repression and repression brings crime. Society made law and order to fight crime, still they are unable to control it, so law people made jails. However, in jail, they are still unable to cure criminals. What is the use of a punishment if it cannot have the desired effect. The very purpose of designing the punishment is lost. I was watching one old movie Kaalia, where the hero is imprisoned for some innocent crime and in the jail he meets another jail mates who are experienced in crime and they become his professor. They make him a professional criminal. So these jails are actually the education centres of crime. I do not want to debate about law and order here, however, my main point is repression.
There are so many restrictions imposed by society, that no one knows what is freedom. If someone expresses free opinion, he/she suffers by society. The famous writer Taslima Nasrin, who is a Bangladeshi author and has been asked to leave India. Her work has already bene awarded, however, few cannot accept her free thoughts, so they campaign against her. Any country will be ready to welcome her, still she wants to be in India and she has been asked to leave India. Why because she dared to be free. Another example is famous painter MF Hussain, he also had to run into exile because people could not tolerate his free ideas in the forms of paintings. His paintings are internationally acclaimed and he is one of the most famous painters alive. He has taken Qatar Citizen ship now so that atleast he can live peacefully. So many people sued him that it became impossible for him to express and live here freely.
People are so use to of living under restrictions that they cannot see if someone is free. They do not see the invisible walls created around them by society. If someone is brave enough to be free, the people get scared as they feel that others might also would like to be free and they try to bind those people and try to bring them under law and order. However, law and order is required if there is repression. If it becomes a free country, where people are aloowed to express and live the way they want, there would not be any law and order required. Crime evolves from repression. MF Hussain has not done any crime, then why was he summoned by the court? Because he dare to be brave enough to express his toughts.
You need to be brave enough to express what you feel, to do what you want to do, so that, you can become your realself. Under all these restrictions, you have become someone else. If you want to know what your real self was, just try to remember, how were you as a child? Didn’t you dare to do the most unfathomable tasks? As a child you could walk on the walls and now you cannot, you are scared why? When you grow up, you should be able to do more daring tasks as you build your strength. However, when you grow, you may grow with physical strength but you lose your inner strength. You lose your bravery. You get conscious that if you walk on a wall, you may fall and get hurt. So what? You can fall while walking on the road too and get hurt. Then? You would stop walking on the road? You need to gather same bravery what you had as a child. So that you can break free from the boundaries imposed around you. So that you can come out of invisible walls built by the society. So that you can become a free person.
If all these tasks were not enough, intelligent people built castes. They started dividing people, so that that can feel superior. They told people that everyone is not equal. So that, if someone wants to be treated equally he/she can be out casted as a criminal. If someone brave tries to treat everyone equal, he is told that all these idealisms look good only in books. Society does not like that it people becomes free because if they would become free, there will not be any society as everyone would be equal and free. They try to find all the measures which can curb the freedom. You need to be brave enough to rise above all such evil restrictions. You will be opposed by the society, you will be opposed by the people who are not free and want everyone else also to be not free, however, you will have to rise above all oppositions to stand up for what you believe in.
If you do not stand up for what you believe in and what you want to do, if you keep your feelings repressed, if you keep living behind these walls of society, you will never be able to respect yourself. If you are unable to respect yourself, how can you have courage to stand up for others? People feel they would fight for this cause and that cause, and they forget they also need someone to fight for them. They are not brave enough to fight for self, and they want to fight for someone else. You need to shed all the inhibitions and feel free to express yourself. Once you feel free you will have courage to become whatever you want to be, otherwise this ruthless society will always suppress you. It will never let you become what you want to be and will keep you under control behind the walls. You need to feel brave,, so that you can stand up against every system so that you can become what you want to be.
You need to feel it inside, it is always there, just shed all your inhibitions and then you can act brave. You cannot act brave, until you will be scared of society and its law. Do not worry about the consequences, they are the excuses of the cowards, and you are not a coward, you are brave, so you can do it. If you cannot, accept you are coward. If you do not feel brave enough to take a step right now remember how you walked the thinnest walls as a child? How you burned fire crackers in your hands. You have always lived inside the walls, so you probably do not know how it is to be free. If a child is born in jail and he grows up inside the jail, for him jail is the world. He would not like to go out of jail as there he would be scared. In jail he gets food and roof but outside he will have to work to earn same. Similarly, you are born inside the jail and have a secure environment, you may be scared that if you break all the restrictions, then you will be standing alone. Do not forget, sometime, you need to do this for yourself. If Mahatma Gandhi would not have broken the restrictions imposed by Britishers, probably India would still have been reeling under British Law. He was brave enough to take a step and he dared to express himself without worrying about what all he would have to face, He also had to go to jail and bear the consequences. In the end he got us what we all were waiting for. Do not worry what would happen, if you are firm on what you want and you are brave enough to not to give up to the pseudo walls of the society, you will pave your paths.
Gather all your strength, it is all inside you, you do not have to get it from anywhere outside. You just need to feel it is all there. Since child hood we are told we cannot do this, we cannot do that. In a way our kind is trained that we cannot do anything. Start training your mind now, that I can do this. Affirm yourself. Tell yourself, I am brave, I will live the way I want, I will do what I want and I can do it. Tell yourself that I am brave and I will fight my own battle. Tell yourself I can be what I want to be. Tell yourself that you are brave and you have courage to be what you want to be. Start training your heart again. Tell yourself that can cross insurmountable and can do unfathomable. Tell yourself I can be what I want to be. Tell yourself, I will not give up what may come. Tell yourself I will fight my own battle, I will be my best companion and I will win. You need to feel it inside and you will have it in your muscles. If you do not feel it inside, no academy can train you to be brave. If you do not have it inside, even a smallest hurdle would look like a mountain and you will sit aside. You will never be able to gather your strength to see the paradise on the other side of the mountain which you reach only after being free and to be free you need to be brave
