Well most of us live in democratic countries, then why we still need independence? we are already privileged with all legal and fundamental rights. we are not slave of any monarchy system, right! But you know one thing we all need independence from several things in life. We need to be free from our past, we need to be free from criticism, we need to be free from hopelessness, we need to be free from society’s norms, we need to be free from mental pain. No one can be fully independent until he or she is not self aware. we all are slave of circumstances. there are lots of situations in life, which make us slave of them. If you fall in love, you feel great and this great feeling somehow made you slave of it, didn’t it? Now you got too attached to your partner, this attachment feeling made you slave of that person. you hate somebody, this hatred feeling made you slave of hate. If you are happy this feeling also made you slave of happiness. We love to earn money so that we can get rich, in that case you get slave of money. No one in this world has complete freedom!

We don’t crave for independence, we actually crave for slavery of things and people. -Upasana

So now the question is, how and when we can get independence?

Well the good news is you can be free, it is possible but the process is quite difficult. What you need to do, is stop getting attach with things, people and situations. Stop giving shit about everything. you can’t control things and people. You only control yourself in the best way, that nothing in this world could bother you, whether that is your power or weakness. Respect everyone, who treat you well, but never make yourself available all the time because you are independent, you have your life too!