Essence of Slavery

Essence of slavery is GETTING IMPRESSED.


When impressed, you value other people's judgements more than your own, in your PERSONAL MATTERS. You let other people decide for you, intimidate details about yourself, such as what clothes you wear, what way you talk, what way you handshake, what food you eat, what hairstyle you adopt etc., i.e. lifestyle things. You have lost confidence in yourself.

This is the substance of slavery. Chains, whips and dungeons just make the form.

Having a leader is not slavery because leaders decide group matters, not personal matters.You can ofcourse mess this up and let your leaders decide about your personal matters too, ending up with pharaohs and fascists.

Getting advice is not slavery because you not blindly follow what told. You do reject some advices. You follow only those advices that you choose, not all of them. Also you not ask advice about everything.

Taking help from experts is not slavery. There are matters in life where you are better off following advices of those who have more knowledge of subject. The tell-tale sign of this that differentiate it from slavery is that you have different experts about different subjects. If you find yourself blindly following a single person, or a single group of people in all subjects then beware, you are a slave. You are also a slave if you are following a person who has no in-depth knowledge about a subject that you are following him in, such as following a cricketer's ad of shampoo.

There are people who want to make other people their slaves. They shout, criticize, argue. Its because they cannot handle disagreements. They want to be kings. Their mission is to make you loose confidence in yourself. They never talk about your natural weaknesses such as height or color because you didn't decide about them. They always question your judgement. They are quick in pointing towards your mistakes. They never talk about your achievements. They try hard to "prove" to you that you are an idiot.

Like drops of water continuously dropping on a stone after a while make a hole in it, the criticisms of these people make you feel less confident in yourself. A vacuum is created which you subconsciously fill with their judgements. You start valuing their decisions on your decisions. Slowly but surely you loose ability to think on your own and start depending on them to make decisions for you. You become one of those people that always seek advice, even about minor personal details of their lives. They have no confidence in themselves and always want somebody else to do the thinking for them. They are not willing to take responsibility of their failures. They want to fire gun putting it on somebody else's shoulder.

Another trick of these people is to be shiny. They wear shiny clothes, have extremely polished shoes, decorate themselves with sparkling jewellery, drive in unnecessary expensive therefore shiny cars, talk about foreign vacations and shoppings, live in unncessary large houses, throw in wastefully luxurious and insanely often parties etc. After a while you start believing that these people are more successful, therefore more wise than you. That these people can solve your problems, because being wise and successful they have already solved these problems, otherwise they wouldn't have move up the ladder. You forget that they might not be that successful as you think, that they might have got what they have through inheritance instead of hard work and clever thinking, that they were just plain lucky to be at right place at right time to get what they have. You view their achievements with microscope and failures with telescope, reversing this when viewing yours.

Another trick of these people is to appear connected. They always verbally or non-verbally boost about how many powerful people they know, that how often they meet them, that since how many decades they know them etc. It turns out that they are not lieing and this really impresses you. What you forget is that you are jumping from one person to another, looking for real guts and are still looking. That may be the guts are not present in any of those people, but present in not-famous people you are ignoring. That the shiny people are supporting each other, hiding absence of skills of each other.

Once you are a slave you are like a monkey. You blindly follow your "masters", imitating both their good and bad actions. You will be happy to even kill yourself if that makes you more like them.

Once you are a slave you become like jews at time of moses in egypt. You would reject having freedom because you are happy being a slave. You would become lazy. You do not want to go through the natural ups and downs, take risks and rewards, that you have to when you run your own enterprise. You will fight, plot and argue against your own kind. You would stop getting angry on anything, no matter what your "owner" do, including killing your first-borns. You would complain and whine about small bumps on road to freedom, because they are inconvenient. You would be like birds of cage who are afraid of outside world.

Anger leads towards freedom. So do weapons. So do history. So do worshipping Allah. So do having wife. So do having children. So do running own business. So do owning property. So do having money. So do friendships, alliances and unions.

The path to freedom begins with confidence in yourself. Then comes criticism over your "owners". When you learn to say "no", know that you have reached a very significant milestone, that freedom is not far. When you find yourself brave enough to actually fight, understand that you are already free. That the mental state is gone. That the substance of slavery is no more, what is left is form and that cannot live long without the substance.

If you are not too worried about failures that you stop taking risks, then understand that you still have the spirit of freedom. That you want to steer your own boat.

If you do not want to strive for more and are content in what you already have, beware that although you are still free, you are close to being a slave. If a person offer you comfort in return of freedom there are strong chances you will take that offer.

Once upon a time, dogs and wolves used to live together, freely in wild. Then during a famine, in a dark winter night, while they were struggling to find some food, they observed some strange light in distance. They decided to investigate the matter. On getting closer they observe that its coming from a village, from houses of humans. The warmth of light was comforting and inviting, making them go even nearer. There they saw plenty of food, heat and a general sense of security. Dogs decided to exchange freedom for convenience, while the wolves made the opposite decision and returned.

Decide for yourself which one would you prefer.


Even now, at every full moon night, wolves woo towards moon, asking dogs to return. Its called CALL OF WILD. The wilderness, the freedom and honor is calling back.

Ofcourse thats a false story but you get the message.

A sign of slavery is too much worry about power of your enemies. You must never think that your enemies are weak, but you also must never think that they are very strong. If you believe that your enemies are very strong, then you go for compromises. Compromises have natural tendency of quickly leading towards slavery.

If you feel comfort in losing ground, in letting go one of your assets hoping to manage the rest better than before, then beware that you are having the mentality of accepting defeat. This has same effect as compromise. While some compromise is needed here and there, after a certain threshold, compromises do lead to loss of confidence. That not to say that you should not contract if you are over stretched. The point is, you should never feel content in making compromises. Your goal should be to get back those assets once you have got matters in control, not to let go of them forever.

A sign of slavery is not pursuing your hobbies because it do not make your "owner" happy. If you are so much pressed that you not get time for your hobby, or have to choose a hobby, then you are not free.