Sadly, we don’t even recognize that we live in similar cave as the allegory of the cave. We are born with a chain of nationality, society, and all of stuff around us makes us who we are rather than who we can be. Generally, we all want to live in comfortable lives. I know Lots of singers sing about truth hurts. It is true. Everybody wants to be in same page and to be in same page, we sometimes have to omit certain truth. It is easier to live with illusion because that is what our society is. We are born in the cave and nobody wants to be free because free is a scary loneliness. However, those who get out the cave have brought us huge achievements in our history and I’d rather get out, too.
Great idea always starts with somebody’s stupidity. When you hear great ideas, we want to make one, too, but mostly we fear. One of my mentors told me once that failing is a scary thing, but succeeding is a way more scary than failing because success needs a change. Change is like the view the prisoner who escapes saw when he got out the cave. Lots of people complain about our society, yet they get used to living in one without changing. Great ideas only come to our mind only when we change to be better.
One of the great examples is Gandhi. He was a leader and pacifist. He brought a peace without violence. He freed India from England. His idea was very simple, yet very powerful movement in history. Instead of fighting back to the England, he used non-violence to against England. Honestly, it was crazy idea, but it killed fire with water. England gave up. Gandhi was the prisoner who escaped.
We are in the cave and without recognizing the huge chain around our legs. No matter how much you think you are free. In order to get out the cave, we have to have open mind and see the world and things from different perspective. We can challenge to claim the wall even people may laugh at us. People might call you crazy, but don’t worry about what other people think about us. Let’s get out.
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