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Limitation
Emily Hesselton

The world is not without limits. The perfection of society is all a deception to draw our minds from the reality that life is not without boundaries. Boundaries imposed upon the human race by not just governments, but by faith in God or Allah or Buddha and the belief that one's religion is right. By the limits imposed on cultures because of tradition, setting up a strict life to live by; creating a mold in which we must fit to achieve what is expected of us. In the complexity of this life, society is perceived as perfect. The illusion of perfection is created by governments who rule supremely—the independence of men is expelled from the mind because independence breeds thoughts and thoughts could breed anarchy. In these strange and complex times, the intrigue in which we live is not bred by merely terrorists or radicals or racists or any others, but by the thinking mind . . . by the open mind yearning to breathe, smell, taste, hear, see, feel independence free from the restraints of government where the impossible is achieved. Though the human race is divided by our faith and our views, we are united under the chains our governments bind us in. The society we live in has limits, boundaries, and freedom from segregation; but freedom from oppression is not freedom, but a fantasy, for we are oppressed, yet we are not free from judgment. We are not free from inferiority, we are not free from control, but, most of all, we are not free from fear. And that is what makes us a world with borders, a world with limits, a world with boundaries set in the minds of the human race. Our very souls are incomplete because of our restrictions. The world is not without limits. For life has no true freedom.