LIFE, LIBERTY & THE PURSUIT OF LIBERTY

I S'poses, before I write this story, I should find out exactly what LIBERTY means. Hang on a sec whilst I go look it up in my FUNK & WAGNOLS, dictionary. Hold on……………………………………………. Still hanging? Ok I'M back and here's an exhaustive list of resources on the word LIBERTY, See J. S. Mill, On Liberty (1859, repr. 1972); Herbert

Butterfield, Liberty in the Modern World (1952);

Sidney Hook, Political Power and Personal Freedom

(1959, repr. 1962); M. R. Konvitz, ed., Aspects of

Liberty (1958, repr. 1965) and Expanding Liberties

(1967); J. M. Swomley, Liberation Ethics (1972); J.

David and R. B. McKay, ed., The Blessings of Liberty

(1989).

You'd be totally or partially amazed at how much info there is on the one little ol' word, LIBERTY. The word LIBERTY can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. However, I just want to deal with one interpretation of this word. We all have friends and family that love us, I hope. And therefore, we all just do what's termed TAKE LIBERTY with them. In other words we take advantage of the fact that they love us. So, in reality we take them for granted. We sometimes act as though our actions don't matter. Just assuming they'll accept whatever we've done. Well, I think this is one aspect of my TBI which I do too often. In other words, I forget that my actions may have negative consequences. That's just one, the only, example of short term memory, like mine, that I can think of that's a negative for me. And while this is the ONLY excuse I or others like me can use for my negative behavior, it's not good enough. But, it's all we/I have TO USE. I heard the PASTOR of my church GREG DENHAM talking about people taking liberty with others, that's where I got the idea for this little essay. Thank you GREG for the idea for this. I don't remember what it is about TAKING LIBERTY with someone that I wanted to write. However, I think/hope by me just writing about this will make people stop and realize all those that they're taking for granted. I know, I'VE thought about this a great deal.