Theory Thursdays: How to Talke your Life into your own Hands

Here's a Question: if we are all serfs and implicitly bonded to the land, how do we take our lives into our own hands as instructed by the first part of the Second Song of the Song of Seven.

Well. I'm going to suggest we look to the example set by one fictional gentleman by the name of Andy Dufresne, in the movie Shawshank Redemption.

Andy is convicted of a crime he insists he didn't commit. He is deprived of freedom and sent to a prison that one might charitably call a hell hole. He is very effectively deprived of all relevant freedom. How then, does he take his life into his own hands?

He does it little by little. One small decision at a time. One little victory and then another. He fights back against the inmates trying to abuse him. And then he bargains with the guards like an equal, and squeezes a little more control of his own life out of them.

"Sir, do you trust your wife?"

He risks death to obtain a little more life. Little step by little step. All of them scary, all of them hard, none of them big until the very very end.

And that first taste of true freedom, when your life really is in your own hands completely, that is the last step on a heroes journey most people will never dare make. Its safe being a slave. Being a warrior is hard.

But take a step. Just one. Take a step.

And then take another.

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