What is Freedom?

In this series of videos, I focused on something that I find myself thinking about any day: freedom. My first video focuses on the weight room. I spend a lot of time here on a weekly basis, but not for the same reasons many people do. Of course, I like the idea of being more physically attractive, but in relation to the mental toughness that this daily routine forces me to express, I couldn't care less about how I appear. The practice of mental toughness is very clear in Into the Wild with many Chris McCandless showing clear signs of mental toughness, even if he is not mentally stable. Even though I feel free in the weight room, I can't help but notice the clock that times everything I do. Everybody lives by the clock. It tells us when to sleep, when to eat, and in this case, when to start the next round of power cleans. My second video focuses on a more natural piece as I sit in a tree. That's nature, right? Ironically, I broke my phone as I climbed the tree. It fell out of my pocket and the 20 foot fall did not treat it very well. Maybe a little less ironically, the tree was located in my backyard, but this seems to be as close as I can get to nature without spending more than 30 minutes in a car, and because of this, I am not out of earshot of my family who always seems to be limiting my freedom with constant orders and chores. My third piece focuses on the driving aspect. When I get in my car, nobody can stop me, except for the people who decided that our roads need stop lights and stop signs. This freedom that I have is the opposite of my ideas of freedom from my younger days. I was always free when I went outside to run around, but after growing up, I have come to the realization that things change. My few freedoms involve technology and very little of this so called "nature."