100% FREE

Have you ever think how free you are? Affortunately, but unaffortunately we are 100% FREE. Let me explain this last sentence: We are affortunately free because it is amazing to do what ever you want to, obviously noticing there are limits, and in the other hand it's unaffortunately (Fernando Savater uses the term "condemned to freedom") because there are consequences, and when we pass those limits, we have to pay consequences and repair damages.

The concept Freedom has a lot to talk about, but the most important and resumed parts according to Savater are the 3 types of Freedom:

1)Freedom as the capacity to act according to one's own desire or projects. (This is the most common meaning of freedom, and the most used.) This is when there are no impossibilities to act the way we want to act.

2)The freedom to want what we want and not just to do, or attempt to do, what we want. This means that if there are impossibilities, no one can stop us from wanting other things. For example if there's a paralitic person, no one can stop him for wanting to walk, or to have the desire to be somewhere else, so we are always free to want, to desire.

3) The freedom to want that which we do not want, and of not wanting what in fact we want. This last type of freedom seems strange and comlex to me, but finally I did understand it by using the next example. Sometimes I am what I want to be, but at the same time I wish to be different. Savater uses a clear example about a house that's on fire with a baby crying inside. If you are walking outside the house and you hear that crying, of course you desire to go inside and rescue that baby, but obviously you are afraid to go inside because you know it's dangerous, but at the same time you wish to had the desire to go inside and save him. This helps us understand that we have the freedom to want to be better, etc.

So to not make this longer, being 100% free is not an easy thing because we have to take care of responsabilities of all types, but at the same time it's amazing because freedom is yours, no one else owns your freedom.