August 18, 2009

The Freedom Essay

“FREEDOM”
(author unknown)

Within the United States of America lies a
large industrial city that is the sight of one of
the world’s largest slave labor camps.

Located in and around the center of this city
are community settlements where the slaves
live.

Each morning the slaves move herd-like from
their quarters into the slave labor camps.

Each one is at his or her station by 7:30 AM.
Here they report to their master for the day’s
duties. And here they remain chained until
5:00 PM when they’re released to go home.

The slaves have no choice as to how many
hours they must labor. Sometimes they are
required to work overtime until their master
tells them they may leave and go home.

Each year the slaves are told when to take their
vacations, for how long, and when they must
return.

They have little choice as to how much money
they earn as they are paid not what they are
worth, but what the job is worth.

They are allowed very little time for lunch and
coffee breaks during the labor hours.

The slaves will remain in their chains in great
fear because the master can punish them with
the “firing” or “layoff” whip.

It is said that even some of the older slaves who
have been good and faithful have felt the sting
of the whip.

Day by day, year-by-year, the slaves toil and
grow older until the master decides it is time
to release them to the retirement camps where
they’re forced to sit idle and wait for death.

It’s a well-known fact that the old slaves who
try to keep working are sometimes whipped
with a “stop-their-pension” whip.

I know these slave camps exist for I once was a
slave.

But now I am a free man who lives among the
slaves.

The reason I am free is because I am in
business for myself as a Network Marketer.

Yes, I am truly free!

I arise in the morning called for by my
schedule!

I decide my own hours!

I can even sleep in late while the slaves are at
work!

I can vacation when, where, and for how long I
please!

I’m free to take my coffee break and lunch
when I decide!

And of course, I can decide my own paycheck
because I am not a slave!

I can choose to work when and where I please
and with whom I please!

I’m free to stay in the city for as long as I want,
or to move on to greener pastures if I decide to!

I’ve seen many slaves sadly pack their
belongings to leave their city in search of a new
master, but it is always the same.

There is however, a ray of hope for the slave.

He or she can buy their own freedom.

The cost is not high, yet it seems high to those
who do not have the courage to pay the price.

What is the price?

One must be willing to be their own master.

ONE MUST BE WILLING TO BE THEIR
OWN MASTER.