The Cage Bird

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Listening to Shermer reading his "How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science" became interesting towards the end, where he expressed his (and shared by many others) feelings on freedom in a world without the necessity of a super-natural being for the meaning of our existence. How he finds more meaning in this given condition of meaninglessness, leaving us to the openness of defining our own meaning, living the life to the fullest, in absence of daemons and angels, fire and the heavens; how we still rise to our morality in a world without a 'third-party' judgement day, and all those meanings that we can't help attaching to our loving yet equally frightening God.

I was not so sure about those feelings, either in the intensity or in their nature. But, then a deeper feeling of sadness, a vague feeling of loosing, gradually but unceasingly began to flood my neurons. Have I, after all these times of 'conditioning' in a corrupted milieu, lost the very will to become free? Have we became slaves, not in our physical limitedness, but in our hearts who do not even seek freedom anymore? Have we not done anything at all right, then? Like that bird of Tagore, we must have completed the lesson then - learned not just to carve our wills, but to have no free will at all. Completeness indeed.