The prison of thoughts

31/01/2022 Nilson Lattari

Thinking is a way to live in prison. Maybe this sentence is confusing, exacerbating or inspiring us. It can be everything, and rather, it can be exactly these expressions. Thoughts can be everywhere and work in different ways. If we hear conversations around us, unlike our perspective, and our wishes to intervene, it will work to establish opposition.
We can express our opinions, even if we don’t know anything about it. But when we hear nonsense arguments, our thoughts will become bars and we will be confined.
Freedom running in the air is sweet. One of these special freedoms is knowledge, and we can feel it, but sometimes, we are jealous of people who don’t know anything or imagine learning things. A kind of prison is a dilemma: living in ignorance or not.
False conclusions are elaborated by stupid thoughts. Meanwhile, there are people who like to live in a world surrounded by ignorance.
To understand it, it’s necessary to disturb thoughts. This misunderstanding might happen if we debunk a supposed normal life; we would live in a bubble and fantasize that we are free, but we would be confined inside ourselves.
The world, nowadays, is open to many kinds of thoughts. Free speech is the model of the people’s liberty. After many fights looking for freedom, humanity finally figures out a world where we can communicate with each other, and then we wonder: what did we do with the freedom that we have conquered?
Freedom running in the air is sweet, but we sometimes need to make a diet. We will be dangerous people if we try to live a way of life that is ok for us, but it won’t be the same for others. But, we must be sensible enough to understand that everyone has their own idea about life.
The prison of thoughts makes sense among prisoners concerned with their thoughts. It is a spontaneous isolation. Reminding of the myth of the cave, it’s most comfortable to believe in the sense of shadows on the wall than to go outdoors to see the light. Darkness brings us comfort and dreams, and light asks us the obligation to see, feel and suffer with this. The sunlight brings us heat and burns shadows for our protection. Is there sense to live under the sun?
Just bear in mind that prisoners ask questions to abandon the prison, and free people want answers, even though they don’t need to go out to find the sun.