Title: That freedom feeling Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/that-freedom-feeling|that-freedom-feeling]] Login Required to view? No Created: 2022-03-15 09:48:36 Updated: 2022-03-18 10:50:49 Published: 2022-03-18 03:00:00 Converted: 2025-04-14T21:16:12.210760844 ---- Freedom...I truly get it now. I had a dream this night about a soldier fighting against his country for freedom. I felt his joy once he had achieved freedom. It was truly worth dying for. For once in his life he was truly alive. The feeling was so intense I couldn’t get back to sleep. I’m hoping writing this will let me get a few more hours of rest. It was overwhelming, and yet very desirable. Worth any risk. It reminds me of the Star Trek : Generations movie where people would do anything to return to the Nexus. We think we grew up in the USA as free people but most of us have never really known liberty, and that is a very scary realization. How would any of us react to true freedom? Even the possibility of it is frightening, some would rather die than experience that elation, that lack of government control, that moment of real liberty. It’s like the Matrix movies where beyond a certain age they didn’t free minds because they couldn’t handle being free, they couldn’t handle the deep emotion of not being controlled, they couldn’t cope with not having every moment of their life being directed for them. I totally understand why there are those that oppose the Convention of States. They are scared to death of the possibility of having to decide things for themselves rather than have an “all-knowing” government tell them what to do.   There are minds that will fight with all they have to remain in the Matrix, to maintain that which they know and feel comfortable with. They are too set in their ways and could no more deal with true freedom than a fish can breathe air. Yes, the Convention of States has the potential to give us real liberty for once in our lives. And that is why we have such opposition. The old minds, even if they are in young bodies, can’t truly handle the concept of true freedom. It's no wonder there is so much push-back from state politicians and others.\\ \\ Let us pray that there are more like our freedom-fighting soldier above and fewer of those too afraid of freedom to risk a Convention of States.