Freedom
After these three days of discussions and discovering new ways of thinking, I can say that I have broadened my view of what "Freedom" is.
We decided to make a separate presentation of what we shared, and here is what I retained for my part.
It is already difficult to determine which freedom we are talking about, the freedom to express oneself? To live according to one's principles. Or the freedom to have no limits whatever the subject? So we decided to tackle several different areas instead of trying to find an absolute definition of freedom.
An interesting idea we talked about was that freedom was in the "letting go", in the absence of will to change things in order to be happy, because once these things are the way we want them, we look for something else to do in order to be happy again
Moreover, one could also say that freedoms are borders between us, and that we must not cross them, that is to say, encroach on the freedom of others. Here we could link these two ideas, if we "let go" of wanting to get more and more, we can't encroach on the freedom of others.
What if the search for freedom was itself a cage?
For me freedom is an ideal more than a realistic idea, a utopia towards which we can tend, but which we can never totally achieve, because to define oneself totally free, according to me, is already not to be free, it is as if the qualifier free were already a restrictive term, paradoxically.
I think that freedom is found in what is not defined, in what is, in a certain way, chaotic.
I was very inspired by what we each said, we had different points of view but we always ended up agreeing on certain points. Absolute freedom probably doesn't exist, and is perhaps only in the eye of the observer.
As for this metaphor that we often used, that of the cage that keeps us safe from the outside world, it is a choice to enter this cage, and to voluntarily limit ourselves in order to be safe, so what is freedom and what is not?
Said Hammely