Freedom to
live as you wish within the legal framework of the Constitution. That basically
means that you’re still not allowed to commit crime and stuff, but apart from
that, you can do as you please. If you want to go watch a movie and you have
the money, go do that. No college to attend and a lot of time to spare? You
could go for a bicycle ride around town! Want to learn how to do chainsaw art
and got the money? Live as you wish!
I get the
feeling that most of you might be confused. Isn’t that what we’re already
doing, you’re wondering. Well, I disagree.
My life is
controlled by my parents. I don’t mean it in a way that will make you think I’m
a whiny teenager. What I mean is this: since they have the money and I don’t,
they decide what I do, not me.
Some of you
may say, “Get a job!” but that wouldn’t work out for me because my father has
strictly said that I’m not to get a job.
I even tried
to work around that and try playing gigs. Technically, it’s not a job and I
still get money for it. So I started playing gigs. Or should I say, gig. That’s
how far I got anyway. He found out that I had a gig planned for February and he
personally called the manager of the café and got it cancelled.
Now, I don’t
agree with that. Music is a big part of my life. That man stopped me when I got
into UCLA and I wanted to study theatre and he’s stopping me now, when I did so
much work to get into the local scene.
And he can
do that because he has the money.
But if we
had Freedom to Live as a fundamental right, do you see how much of a difference
it would make? Of course, there would have to be conditions like “only
applicable to people above the age of 18” etc because everybody knows, high
school kids will exploit the right to glory and well, our country’s population
is already 1.2 billion. Sometimes, I can feel the land sinking under the weight
of 1.2 billion people. If any more people come along – and knowing high school
kids, a lot of people will come along – India can become a part of the Indian
ocean forever.
I’m talking
about Freedom to Live in a very sensible sense. Of course, people will try to
exploit this right, but honestly, which right have we not exploited? I
challenge you to cross your heart and tell me that you’ve never exploited an
advantage before.
Maybe we could
have government offices that grant permission to do whatever you want to. Heck,
it would increase employment. But mostly, it would finally give people a boost
in spirits to do whatever they want to. And if anybody tries to stop them, they
mess with the government and then, they get imprisoned or have to pay a hefty
fine or whatever.
It’s just
not enough to have a fundamental right for employment or speech. We need one
for living daily life too because honestly, this is what we do the most and we
need to live a happy life.
