The Possession of a Preoccupied Mind

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Hey, how you doin'?  No, I am not rewatching Friends for the zillionth time.  It's just that I hate to start traditionally.  I'm in a conflicting situation: some of my readers like my conversational tone, but apparently it isn't quite acceptable to the publication agencies. Two of my best-appreciated stories were rejected because of their tone. The rejection felt like a jolt that I could practically feel in my head, especially the second one.  Since that day, I've been caught up in a vicious loop of boredom because I stopped writing anything new.   I also called off a new transcription gig that promised me some good money, but the client was a tad bit of a scoundrel in his behaviour.  So here I am, having voluntarily stepped away from both writing and work, and somehow managing to be bored out of my mind. Pretty efficient, ain't I? I'm in that peculiar state where I don't want to do anything to kill time, yet somehow want the time to pass joyfully. I ...
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Can Independence Be Equated With an Authority

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Independence, sometimes we deduce the term as letting us do, speak, and conduct ourselves the way we want. But these things are merely what the term entails, the characteristics of it. 

The term has multiplicity when it comes to definition. One meaning of it is being free from outside control. Having no authority. Another sense of it is not depending on others for livelihood or sustenance. 


Given Independence VS Gotten Independence

We can infer Independence as an implementation that is either given or gotten. 


The given happens when the dominion under which your being exists itself gives you all the rights to enjoy its privileges. 


But the gotten part happens when you strip yourself from the very authority under which you exist. The need for such things could be attributed to various factors which might have a stranglehold on you. 


However, one thing a person needs to understand is that as long as he lives under the umbrella of dominion, whatever independence he'll get would be given by the authority. Thus, it'll be called given independence. Under this condition, you have to accept certain limitations which will be imposed on you by the authority.


But if you want to enjoy a fully-fledged independence, you have to tie up the loose end and get your independence. 


Have An Authority Or Be A Pariah

However, there is a certain satisfaction of having authority over you without which you will only become someone without having an origin. A countryman giving up his own country's authority to speak a few words of dissatisfaction ought to lead the life of an expatriate. 


Similarly, a young adolescent wanting to explore life in its full debauchery has to give up the authority of his procreators and ought to live the life of a derelict. 


Conclusion: Get Your Independence Compromisingly Or Be Castaway

Thus, we deduce that no one has tasted the term independence in its true sense. Because one cannot equate independence with authority and we all have some kind of authority over us. That authority could be of caste, could be of creed, could be of country, could be of religion, could be of parents, could be of spouse, could be of society. Thus, we all taste independence compromisingly. 


And those nonconformists who refused to compromise are either called outcasts or expatriates or derelicts or sacrileges depending on whose authority they refused. 

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