I read a story about a beautiful singing bird that was free and happy, flying around, singing her thrill from flower to flower, from tree to tree, able to find her grains or water, her shelter or not, sometimes in danger and sometimes not, BUT FREE!

This freedom kept her alive and happy!

One day an ugly soul man, mesmerized by the thrills and beauty of the little bird, decided to make her his own. He captured her using his dirty tricks, manipulated her, and promised her the moon and the sun if she would stay in his home, in her personalized golden cage.

“You do not need to worry about anything,” the dirty, ugly man told her. “I love you so much. I want you to be happy and sing JUST for me” he said. “I want to see you daily and hear your voice and songs. Ask me for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, and it’s yours,” the Evil soul man said.

The poor bird danced around his feet, sang a song, and said, “I don’t need anything from you, but if you want to listen to me and look at me, it’s not a problem. Everyone is free to do it.”

The evil man built the most gorgeous cage for the bird, but she never felt welcomed there. CCTV around the cage, gardiens and hostile people. And she loved simple things, people, other birds, butterflies, flowers, trees, sunshine, and laughter.

The evilness put cameras in all corners of the bird cage to see her day and night, and microphones to listen to her. All her moves in and out of the cage were monitored, her free life was no more hers.

The poor bird was recorded 24×7, and her beauty and thrills were shared by the EVIL man with his EVIL friends, all of them belonging to HELL.

And like it was not enough; THE HELL starts broadcasting it on the media. Radio and the internet were full of the pictures, videos, and thrills of the captured bird. Everyone was making money sharing her.

As much as THE EVIL saw that he could make money using the Golden colorful bird, he starts to want more and more from her. He started picking up her feathers. One by one.

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

(My mom loved Jane Eyre – she taught me about freedom )

Entering in her cage and picking up her feathers. The bird soul was in pain and no one to tell it, and no one would believe her. “Be grateful”, everyone said. Day by day, the bird lost her colorful feathers and became more and more cold and sad.

The EVIL started to give her less and less food, as ugly and fat, she became.

The poor bird was nothing from the happy one that was once when she came into the EVIL’s house!

The EVIL started to share the poor bird with its friends. Poor old fat with no feathers, the bird became the mockery for all the HELL’s friends. And each of them kept wanting a feather from the poor bird, when she had nothing to let them take from her. They kept abusing her.

“WHO said that you are a beautiful, colorful, happy bird?” they said.

“You are an ugly, fat, with not colorful feathers,” they laughed, after they picked up all her feathers.

“Let’s share her image on the media, everyone to know about this ugly bird”, the Evils said.

The bird became sad and more sad. She started refusing to go out from the cage.

She stopped singing, dancing, and she was no more happy.

Till one day, from her cage monitored 24×7, naked with no more feathers and mocked by everyone, she heard a thrill like one of her old ones. It came from outside the window.

Another bird sang.

With her last forces, our beautiful bird woke up and decided that it was time to be free and leave the golden cage.

But the EVIL refused to let her be free. The EVIL wanted to see the bird dying in the cage. Because that’s how the EVIL is taking his power. Destroying others or buying them souls.

And the bird soul was NOT for SALE! She refused to sell her FREE SOUL!

The bird woke up and started pouncing the cage grates, one time, two times, three times.

The EVIL laughed satisfied and started broadcasting bird’s pain for freedom, enjoying it with his whole HELL family.

Four times, five times, six times….

The bird knew, it is FREEDOM or DEATH.

Because you can’t keep a FREE bird in a cage, giving her food, shelter but enslaving her.

A bird was born free, was free and is free, has her freedom. Maybe she can’t find her food and her shelter. But in freedom one day she will find it! She can sing when she wants, for whom she wants. FREE!

If you were born in a cage and you never flew, you don’t know what FREEDOM is for a bird.

As for THE EVIL, you don’t need to kill a bird to feel in power. You already did it, taking her freedom away.

She will kill herself without freedom!

Is your society A CAGE? And you enjoy your people’s freedom struggles?

Or do your people not know what FREEDOM is?