The Limits of Freedom; When Your Life Is On Repeat

People have always been a big fan of repeating the same thing over and over. The repeat
option in your phones music player exists for that reason; music boxes are antique
representations of repetition; your habits are manifested because of repetition; the time you
wake up and go to bed and the coffee shop you visit every after school your daily routine, is a
repetition; the way you fall for the same lie your boyfriend tells you is a repetition. Maybe it is
evolutionary, maybe it is by choice or maybe it is an adaptation of several social constructs but
a portion of us will always be practicing repetition.

But most of us have yet to realize that the gift that has been given to mankind is not
repetition but freedom. The Higher Being you believe in, if any, provided you with an innate
freewill and a skill of choice, not to keep on repeating things but to continuously explore your
freedom towards self-development.

Now, I am not saying that repetition is negative but there always comes a point when
repetition stops your personal growth. People may be fans of repetition but if you listen to the
same music for a couple of months, if we never change our ways, if our routine stays the same,
if we keep falling for the same lie in our relationships it gets tiring. Everybody has felt that but
the problem is, not everyone has decided to do anything about it; ladies and gentleman,
repetition is the limit of freedom.

When your life is on repeat, then its safe to say that you are imprisoned by your own life.
According Kierkegaard, a famous philosopher, repetition can not grasp movement. The
repetition of individuality is the repetition of limits and concreteness. In repetition, there is no
moving beyond and moving forward, but only backwards - to maintain sameness. A person who
makes no movement, is enslaved by the comforts of his life. The fear of the unknown, the fear of

the unfamiliar - is what traps you in a life of repetition. And the only way to break free from your
own prison, is to take the first step towards your freedom to explore.

Ayn Rand, the author of my most favorite book Fountain Head wrote, Every man is free
to rise as hes able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which
hell rise. Now think of the people repeat and do the same things over and over again
throughout their life. But then, compare them with the people who broke traditions, broke the
norms, and whove set the new standards. There are only two distinguishable differences; there
are people who chose to live inside their comfort zones, and those who dared to venture outside
to write their names throughout history.

Now, pause for a minute and imagine everything in your life that you do repeatedly. I can
bet that some of it sounds good while a relevant portion of it wound sound wrong. That relevant
portion is what I want you to re-evaluate. Is it worth repeating? Is the music you keep on playing
just because you got used to it? Is it detrimental to your mental health and psychological
growth? These questions are not rhetorical; I am actually urging, no, forcing you to answer each
of it. And if each time you get more yes than no, its time to wake up. Stop living in a prison
youve embedded upon yourself.