TheRebelRisingBlog: What's Our Free Will For?

I wonder sometimes how awakened we really are in this world. Unbeknownst to so many of us, the free will we came into this world with has never actually been expressed to its fullest capacity. We live by this operating system that was put in place eons ago that prohibits our searching for greater heights, for expanding our awareness so that we can create lives that are not governed by what society or others think we should be doing, or what age we should be doing it. Instead we acclimate to the beliefs of others who are too afraid to do anymore than what they’re already doing in their lives. And they in turn strive to keep others on course looking for ways to tread upon their spirit.

A very good friend of mine passed away in 2020 (no, it wasn’t from covid). He had complications after a years bout with an illness. He was told he had a tumor in his esophagus and for several months couldn’t hold down food while his doctors delayed the diagnosis since they couldn’t decide what label to place these symptoms under.

This was a man who enjoyed being active and took great joy in eating well, and took great pleasure in simple things like a really well made pomegranate martini from time to time. He got me into those martinis as well. What I learned from him was about enjoying and extracting whatever you can out of life, whether it was watching race horses at Aqueduct, or going out to a fine restaurant, or just enjoying the indoor pool area at the Bogota Hotel in Atlantic City. At one point he had moved down to Florida to manage a restaurant. He enjoyed being around and talking to people, and relished his freedom to do what gave him enjoyment. Helping people also was something he did all the time. When my ankle was broken a couple of years prior, he whisked me off to the emergency room and helped me get to medical appointments for the next two months after that. When I had to go through chemo treatments in 2019, he encouraged and gave me support when all I could do was cry from the fear of what might happen to me along the way.

As I was saying, free will is everything and we’ve forgotten that we have IT. We don’t have to accept what this world, or should I say the people in it, are pushing at us, or presenting to us with no choice in Hell for anything better. My friend accepted the doctors so called medical expertise even when it put him in an extremely unbearable situation. Many doctors rely on a physical apparatus to determine the problem with someones body. When those decisions ended up worsening  my friends’ condition, he still believed he would get better and would at some point again enjoy another pomegranate martini by a beach side restaurant on a nice sunny warm day.

We’ve given up on our free will choosing instead to accept the answers from so called medical practitioners who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the honor of hanging a medical license on an office wall. Remember they’re still practicing even after those years of study have ended at an ivy league medical school. And for all those endless hours of study, for some reason the basic understanding of the incredibly innate workings of the human body is lost on them. Their belief that the all mighty pill is the savior for all has been placed upon their altars of faith. Whatever happened to that auto immune system we were all born with? Our bodies  were perfectly created and balanced until humans began to think they can do better by combining artificial ingredients created in labs, and injections for every conceivable issue. Wait, you have an itch on the back of your little finger? We have a pill for that!

Where did our free will go? Is it outside waiting for us to remember to take it in? Did we store it in a box in the back of a closet? Take the damn thing out. You need it now more than ever.

It’s our sovereign right to think for ourselves and decide what we feel is appropriate for that physical vehicle we came into this world with.

In the end it’s free will that fuels our vehicle. Without that fuel, even a great pomegranate martini and the perfect view on a beach in Bermuda can fall flat.