WW121 ⛓️ What is freedom anyway?
Hello, dear reader!
It's so nice that you're here! I wonder if you're already feeling the end-of-summer blues? In my experience, summer ends in Hungary on August 20th, slightly earlier in Sweden (if there's a summer at all - they say it's been missing this year). School starts on Monday, and we've been back in Stockholm for almost a week now.
On my first morning here, I woke up and felt the need to express what I perceived about freedom and its absence during the summer in Budapest. I formulated sharp social criticism.
I believe that the Hungarian people love freedom but are not free. In fact, they're afraid of free people! It's crucial to understand that:
In Hungary today, anyone who thinks, behaves, and lives freely must be immediately suppressed, condescended to, ostracized. Let's isolate them, wrap them in foil, put them on a separate shelf, make them impossible!
But what is freedom? The absence of rules? The Wild West? No, because there, anyone can take away what we fought hard for.
For freedom, we need rules so that we don't violate each other's freedom. This requires continuous dialogue with each other, often leading to difficult conversations, but setting our boundaries and coordinating our movements is a constant challenge.
Freedom in practice is intense teamwork. We must learn to communicate assertively, collectively shape our rules, and this process never ends. The world changes, we change, and to experience our freedom, we need to constantly rethink the laws.
Podcast
Listen to the entire train of thought in the "Bezzeg a svédek!?" podcast's latest episode, where I also share personal stories with the listeners.
Due to the summer slow season, on the HAC channel, a very useful and interesting discussion from 2021 was released on Wednesday. My guest is Dr. Emese Hruska, a music psychologist, musician, and university lecturer who obtained a PhD in perfectionism.
The episode talks about stage fright, excessive performance expectations, and the related anxieties, which affect ordinary people like us. Listen on your favorite player!
Freedom
For me, the greatest freedom means being able to shape my everyday life according to my needs while maintaining quality connections with important people.
In my upcoming group online-live program starting on September 18th, participants will receive numerous tools to shape such a freedom.
We will meet online five times and decipher why finding balance in today's world is so difficult, why saying no is important, how to assertively communicate boundaries. Participants will make plans to incorporate new habits into their lives that serve their needs, and of course, there will also be discussions about mindfulness and preventing burnout.
More than half of the 12 spots are already taken, so sign up as soon as possible if you also want to create your freedom! Details and registration on my website: https://www.banandras.com/csoport/
This was the ad spot. Feel free to write to me replying to this email if you have any questions about the group.
Thank you for your attention today, and enjoy whatever is left of the summer!
Best regards,
András