Freedom - Could you handle it? ( Archived) (23)

In the US, we get old "freedom" this, "freedom" that line ad nauseum, but how free are we really?

We're tied down by financial obligations (mortgage, taxes, property, family), and most importantly the fact that we have to have jobs to keep us afloat. Few of us manage to get to the point of packing it in and going where we want to go or do as we really please.

Would you know what to do with yourself if you weren't tied down by anything at all (short of the Feds wanting their taxes); if you were really free to do as you please with reasonable means would you be happy?

Would you get bored? Would you want "some" ties to feel as if you have a "home"? or would you be content to be a "citizen of the world"? Could you handle being truly free?

I think so. I'd travel the world and write my thoughts, and maybe someone would even want to read them. But if not, I still think I'd be fine.

Yup I can handle it as I have been free the past two years. I am able to live on very little money and I have been traveling around the States helping out my family and friends with things they need done all the while attending college for my degree and everyone I know is available online or via cell phone.

My wish is that being able to be a world citizen was in fact possible but moving between countries is very difficult in todays world especially. It would be very nice to be able to get some kind of all round pass that would be recognized by as many countries as possible so one could easily relocate country to country without spending a year or more getting permissions etc just to have to do it all over again.

Get me that freedom and I indeed would become a citizen of the world as quickly as possible. As for getting bored?? oh heck no, but would I like to have a traveling companion?... without a doubt.

I take it you mean no children, no pets, nothing at all to tie you down in any way? No, I wouldn't want that at all. Even when my sons are grown and living their own lives, I will have pets, so I'll always have ties to a home.

I like having roots and obligations in my life.

I know I would certainly enjoy myself.... And wow...I think that's just awesome Shed....all of it....

WOW, What an interesting question. I'm adding you to my Fav. List! I love this question. Let me leave it at that! I'm single you know!

Interesting to read everyone's perspective. Thanks.

I think I've managed to be as free as one can be (can't outrun the IRS unfortunately) but I've also encountered quite a few people who are perplexed when I tell them that I have no "home." (by choice!). That, more than anything seems to be peoples' foremost concern - having a home-base, some place to go to, a place where they have roots... and I find myself wondering: why is that? is that our nature? or is it environmental? It would seem to make sense if one is of child-rearing age, but then when one's past that stage, is it still important? ... why?...hmmm....