Claim Your Freedom

Be the Creator of Your Own Life

We can re-code anything! Just as we can re-code video games, computers, and policies, we can also re-code our own minds. Don’t you want to free your mind from the indoctrination of our oppressors? That state of being our oppressor’s call “free”, has always come with a cost that works only to their advantage. So long as you abide by their rules, their systems of control, and fit inside the box they designed, then you are “free”?! That isn’t freedom, that’s being trapped in a box!

I don’t know about you, but I crave to know what freedom truly feels like. I know that in order to get to that freedom I have to unearth all the brainwashing my oppressors have placed in me throughout my entire existence, as well as all my ancestor’s who also suffered under our oppressors “freedom”. I have inherited the indoctrination of my ancestors, as well as through how I was raised, through my education, church, and the media I have consumed.

Most of us were raised under this controlling colonial mindset that comes with the expectation that we be obedient, match the gender we were assigned at birth, do well in school, go to college, get a good job, make a lot of money, have a family, work your whole life till the end when you’re body is crippled over and barely able to move from this lifetime of work, and then you can find time to enjoy your life. Some people have found satisfaction in this colonial system, but many of us have instead found obstacles that make this system very difficult to live in.

Let’s just take me for example. I was born poor, in a working class town where everyone I knew worked hard, but still had to live paycheck to paycheck. At a young age I knew I was queer, and I wanted nothing more than to be an artist; filmmaker, musician, and writer. I was a young girl dreaming things that I knew people like me were not supposed to dream. Instead we were pushed towards college to help prepare us for practical careers so that we could make the right amount of money.

It took me a while, 10 years after graduating High School, before I finally gave in and entered college. Hoping that the promise I’d been fed all my life, about college bringing you up in life was true. Thanks to college, I was given debt for the first time in my life. Debt that I still live with and have barely been able to chip away at. And, since my dreams refuse to be ignored, I still chose to be a musician, spending 20+ years working on my craft. All this time and I still have no money to show for it. Despite how hard I have worked. Despite how talented I might be. Our oppressor’s only value the art that is going to make them millions and billions of dollars, which tends to be young pop stars, and look how used, worn out, and isolated they quickly become.

Sure, giving up on my dreams may be an option. I could use my college degree to get a “stable” career. But have you looked around at the state of the world just over the past four months? We are living in chaos right now! Our current authoritarian government is disrupting the whole system, throwing away peoples lifelong careers like it is the day's trash. No job is safe. Even our birthright citizenship might come to an end?! Who will be denied citizenship? Will I since I don’t subscribe to a gender, since our leaders are banning books and healthcare around my identity, how do I know I won’t be banned from my own country?!

On top of that, our political leaders are giving enormous tax breaks to the wealthiest of Americans while they pay themselves off the backs of the hard working low and middle class workers. The unhinged, and never explained Tariff war that made the stock market go crazy was just another tool for the wealthy to get even wealthier. Even elected leaders (Marjorie Taylor Green) took advantage of the stocks dipping and won big money. When everyone was terrified of a recession, how did Marjorie know to buy stocks?! How is she not fired on the spot for these actions?! The people who are supposed to be working on our behalf are overtly working on their own. This is all happening under the same system that expects me to get a 9 to 5 job? Why? To continue to make the rich richer?! What do we get out of it? When do we get to benefit?

So Hell NO! I have zero interest in playing by their colonial rules and getting a stable job just to have the possibility of financial security. Financial security doesn’t even exist anymore! I am more than just a body used as a tool for labor! I have a heart and soul that deserves to be expressed out loud and not hidden away in a locked up corner of my body while I slave away at a job that continues to diminish my mental health, and makes so many of us reach for drugs and alcohol to numb the misery we continuously feel living and working in this heartless world! This is a kind of hell I know far too many people are living through. We all deserve to live a life of our own choosing!

I truly believe WE ALL CAN be the creator of our own life. We are all born free, but our sweet, innocent minds and bodies are taken advantage of by indoctrinating us with petty rules that dictate our existence. We were trained to give away our freedom, to give away our power. Freedom is not something that is going to be handed to us. It is something that we must claim, by stepping into our own power and wrapping freedom around us like our lives depend on it. Because they do!

Imagine if we all collectively just snapped the fuck out of it, found our heart in that place deep inside of us where we hid it, unlocked it, and finally led our life with that as our guide. Would you be working the job you do now? How would your life be different?

The whole world is changing quicker than we have ever seen before. Maybe it's time you did some changing too, by claiming your heart back to create a life for yourself that is better than you have ever had. You can create the life you’ve always dreamed of! I promise you, you are the one who is actually in control of you. No more excuses, they just delay the freedom that is right there, waiting for you to claim it.