la liberté

Thank God for free will. If there’s anything I learned from Trainspotting, it’s that in life, everything you do is a choice. Yes, Trainspotting, the 1996 cult classic about a heroin-addicted friend group, until one ultimately decides to leave the doomed squad, taking a drug-free path. He chose freedom, he chose life. The thing about making a choice is that everyone is going to have an opinion no matter what. You just have to accept that people say negative things when they don’t understand something, and that’s totally fine. They’re responsible for their words and you’re responsible for yours.

We have to bow out from stressing out on things we don’t have control over, and not waste time trying to sway people our way. After all, we’re not politicians, so who cares if we get everyone on our side? They simply don’t have to be. There is freedom and power in not having someone’s actions or words being a cloud over your head. We shouldn’t have to beg anyone to accept or love us for who we are. If they do, they do, and that’s freaking amazing. If they don’t, it doesn’t matter, because there will always be people who do. Choose the people who choose you.

We should pick up God’s lessons on love.God loves without any actual reason. His love isn’t transactional or conditional. There’s a liberty in love because it’s unconditional, it’s true, and pure. So love yourself the way you want to be loved, and love others the way you want to be loved. Stay true to you, be 100%, be honest, be real in the face of trouble and peace, in love and distaste, in proximity and distance, because freedom lies in being true. Freedom lies in being you.

Until the next one

-C