Take initiative. Be independent. Independence is an inherent part of freedom. Innovation, originality. If we could all be more independent in our thoughts and actions, we will be unstoppable.

Independence is the will to do what one wants to do. We have a right to be free, and a duty to use that independently. We don't say what others tell us to say, do or think what we are taught, with whatever sensibility or truthfulness, is enlightening. We need to say what we want, think, and do.

But what a person wants is not the same thing as indulging or flocking to whatever passing, edifying fancy, however fleet or wholly fruitless, shows to us. What a person really wants is a process of unveiling what makes them, and what over an established and directed course gratifies them. Truly, I may want to be fit, and that is perhaps the light of my desire. Yet the cookies or candy in front of me may say to me that I want them more. Yet I do not want the cookies, I want to lose weight, or to be fit. But we too often think that the things that we want must be packaged into a neat little bunion, made presentable with compulsory and unrestricted process, and placed helplessly into our little hand without reflection or spark.

That is not what somebody wants, however. That is nothing more than a human taken captive, strapped into a type of chair, and held there. His captors occasionally feed him, to keep him alive. The person held captive may think they want that food, because it keeps them from starving, but it is inaccurate to say that it is what the person wants, beyond even the most baseless of readings, and I would question that, too.

Originality is a complex process, a complex process, that involves figuring things out. If we can figure out what we want, we can achieve independence. Not the type of independence that consists of superficiality or illusions, but a real and greater form of independence.