Day 305+1: The Price of Freedom and Independence

Have you ever give yourself time to think about the price for getting your freedom? The cost to be independent and maintain it?

Being born to a free country, I have always been taking those two for granted. Never give a lot of thought about them. Not until these last decade and even that only a few moments each year as our independence day nearing. Not really much until I got wind up in a strategy game that people played anonymously in the internet.

Yes it is just a game but that game made me realize that in order to thrive, one can not just simply played by oneself and pretend that other players' existence is not really matter. By that game, I was reminded that in order to strengthen one's alliance one must find players with like-minded, same purpose, and share the same goal.

And in hard times one must make decisions that may or may not affect other alliance members well-being but surely could cost one's freedom and independence. Thus was the condition that I must endure to remind me that how high the price of freedom could be. How steep the cost to keep being independent. And how hard is it to represent the greater good if decisions have to be made democratically.

Hah, the burden of being democratic.

But without having a democratic alliance, what good that it'd be? How could I can claim to be the champion of freedom and independent if I was being a dictator? But then again, how can I be even claiming to have forge my alliance to be stronger if I was and still am being farmed by other mightier player with stronger alliance?

Ah, the musing of a man with a lot of spare time to waste.