So have you thought about how often you do stuff for no reason whatsoever? Like let’s say, what’s stopping you from straight up lying. There’s really nothing stopping you from doing it.
I’ve been reconsidering how often I abuse my free will. And I don’t think I use it enough. I don’t think anybody uses it enough.
Think about just how often you lie. Yes, lying is bad. Honesty is the best policy. LAME, whatever let’s lie about our weekend, just because you can. I spent my weekend being productive, I caught up on schoolwork. BZZT WRONG BUZZER, I actually spent my weekend rotting in bed and scrolling on Tiktok but you don’t need to know that. Cause who’s gonna check me? LOL! That’s the whole point.
Ideas like pressing all the buttons in the elevator, screaming in a dead silent library, or walking into a deli and ordering a sandwich and just leaving without taking anything. I won’t be trying that whatsoever but it’s a passing thought; you usually pay after your food is made and on the counter in most delis anyway. So what’s stopping you?
Window shopping is an example of free will that became normalized. You walk into a store and just look at stuff with no plans of purchasing. Hell yeah, dude. Bother that sales associate who hopes they’d get a commission out of you unaware you came to play in their face.
When asked about how they can abuse their free will an anonymous educator said, “I could just walk out of this building right now. They’d press me, but that doesn’t have anything to do with my free will. I could just walk out.”
You don’t have to throw a bottle in the trash like a 3 pointer, but you do it anyway. You had the option of just dropping it.
Another anonymous educator said, “I’d use my free will to travel, I’d call out of work everyday, buy food everyday; sometimes you just don’t want to cook.”
Free will varies in its extremity, and within it are intrusive thoughts. Your act of free will can be walking out wordlessly from a classroom that needs teacher permission or sitting in a train until not your last stop, but the train’s last stop just to see where you’ll end up (btw…don’t do that, I mean you can but you shouldn’t.)
[DO NOT DO THIS. THESE ARE EXAMPLES. YOU ARE NOT FREE OF CONSEQUENCES!]
We all heard of the saying, “-stealing candy from a baby.” Awesome, now why don’t you take it into practice. Snatch it and take it out of their hands, the baby and the parents are confused and staring at you and this is an amazing opportunity to run away.
You ever walk in the crowded streets of the city, get frustrated and think “Damn, Can this person in front of me walk any slower?” Your course of action is to just probably feel defeated and keep a slow pace or just find an opening to speed walk into. But really, you should just kick the back of their knee. You might get punched and confronted, but was there really anything stopping you from doing so…? Probably morals & ethics and respect and social norms and everything else.
Think about the stuff you don’t do. It’s never about whether you can’t do it, or you’re not able to. It’s just you not wanting to. Be free, friend (Responsibly).
