What freedom could be if it is not what we thought it is?

“Is this not your natural state? It is the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.”

Deep words scripted for the beloved “Loki Odinson” from “The Avengers” as a wake-up call for the people of New York after forcing them to kneel before him. Tom Hiddleston’s character “Loki” widened my own thinking box to contain much more important questions, such as what freedom is to us? Do we really want freedom or do we really just do want what we are not easily granted?

Is it the fight for freedom is what gives us the rush of blood to the head, or do we really want this unconditional freedom? Because once you do think about it, at the end of the day we would need some sort of boundaries to tell us our limit, not because we want nor need to be limited.. but because having a limit what gives us this urge to evolve and do more in order to go beyond those limits and prove something or someone out there wrong to box us in.

The journey to anything is always more fun and memorable, it makes the endpoint so worth it and more glorious to us. But at some point, sometimes we stop to wonder “now that we are there, what is next?”. We are left in boredom and some kind of emptiness now that our goal is reached. So, we trick ourselves into finding backstreets that would lead us to the same finishing line just to convince ourselves that the road is long, just so we do not get there too easy too fast then end up aimless again.

So, is that what freedom is for us? Just something we are sure not all humans is lucky enough to get, so, we subconsciously set it as a goal that we will always be in an amazing journey trying to reach? Just a safe delusion we form in our heads to get our heart pumping and make us feel alive whenever we are lost and out of actual reachable goals?

Do we really know how to handle freedom and be responsible for what it represents, or do we want limited freedom so we can sleep at night knowing that it is not all on our shoulders and some upper hand will always be there picking up after us?

Funny how a Marvel movie can contain few words that some watchers find strong and powerful in the storyboard, but my overthinking head took it to a new level of personal research and redefinition of freedom!