Day 5

Mar 13, 2010 02:22

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

I feel like I should just say "Everything Joss Whedon has said ever," but that would be cheating XD I don't think I really have a particular favorite quote, but here is one that has always stuck with me:

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract, 1762)

I guess I like it so much because it's so...true. Whether people want to believe it or not, it's true. Jean-Paul Sartre became a famous philosopher in the mid 20th century with his theory of radical freedom, yet Rousseau practically summed it up with one sentence back nearly 200 years before. The concept entails that humans are free to do absolutely anything they want to do, and that in actuality, no one can force another person to do something. The only thing that limits our freedom is anguish - the fear of consequences or remorse. In a nutshell: you're free to do whatever you like and no one can make you do anything you don't want to. If your boss tells you that you have to stay late or you're fired, you're completely free to leave at any time you want, but will later have to deal with the consequences of your actions. Humans have complete and absolute freedom, which is liberating, when you think about it, but is also very limiting when you then think about all constrictions put on your freedom, even in a "free" nation like the US.
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