We’re all our own prisons, we are each all our own wardens and we do our own time. I can’t judge anyone else. What other people do is not really my affair unless they approach me with it. Prison’s in your mind. Can’t you see I’m free?
I saw the above and it made me wonder. I know the one who said it was Manson so that might have an impact of the truth of it.
Manson’s in a real prison. He has a real warden not to mention real guards, concrete walls, and iron bars.
Life is only like a prison if you make it so. I’m not my own warden, I don’t have a warden, my time has been imposed by biology and physics. If I restrict myself in any way it’s by choice and not by a court order.
You get what everyone else gets. You get a lifetime.
WTF? The fact that Manson said it gives it an “impact of truth”??
Explain.
If anything, I think the OP is saying the opposite. “Charles Manson said it, so you probably just want to disregard it altogether”.
No body gets out of here alive.
I prefer to believe in my own personal immortality until proven otherwise.
No, I can’t see that at all.
I am currently at a job I enjoy, doing something worth doing, and making a more than comfortable living. When I am done for today, I am going to drive to the gym to work out. When I get there, the person behind the desk will smile at me and greet me by name. When I am done, I will go to the house I bought, and there is a beautiful woman there who loves me and who I love, and she will smile at me when I kiss her. Then I will take the dog for a walk, and we will walk wherever we want and I will listen to great literature and smoke a cigar. And then I will go home and sit down by that same woman and have beer and pizza, and watch whatever we want on TV for a while, and then go to bed on clean sheets, in a comfortable room. And that same woman is going to be there.
The 60s are gone, Charlie. Don’t spend almost the whole of your life behind bars and expect me to fall for that pseudo-profound rap.
Regards,
Shodan
Regards,
Shodan
It sucks to be human.
(This answer can be cut and pasted into every-single-one of the OP’s threads.)
– Woody Allen
I think the terms prison and freedom are largely open to personal interpretation
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.
Sorry, but even though my life sucks right now, I have to say that, “We are our own prisons.” sounds just like what you’d expect a real life-without-parole prisoner would say.
Technically he would be the most imprisoned. If not literally then figuratively. He’s locked into his own view and cannot see what others do. Reading some of what he says, it’s barely coherent and seems like nonsense pretending to be deep. He seems truly crazy, and that’s it’s own prison.
Perhaps even believing yourself free is its own prison and ironically the ties that bind are their own freedom.
Like I said, largely based on personal opinion.
Many people thrive in a literal prison. When released, the re-offend in order to go back to a life that suits their nature.
So, figuratively, there are also a lot of people who feel more comfortable in the prison that they have made for themselves. Those who don’t, according to their personal resources and strengths, may find ways to escape from their self-imposed prisons.
Kind of makes you wonder if all the hype about freedom is really all it’s cracked up to be. People have many definitions about freedom, in the end it might just be important to go with what makes you happy. Life’s too short for much else.
Well, that’s a bet you can’t lose - 'cause if you lose, who’s gunna make you pay?
Very good post.
