Part three – freedom within the rules and responsibility
And finally! I finally received a document that gave me +100 protection from the TCR guys. In essence, it was a copy of my application for contract service that I submitted to the TCR, and it had the TCR’s signature and live seal on it. In other words, this document confirmed that I had indeed come to the TCR and submitted an application.
At first, I felt a sense of complete freedom. “Finally! I am free, I can go wherever I want…” I wrote to Vika that I had handed everything in and now had a document from the TCR. I asked if I could go home today. Vika said, “Come to the base and we’ll discuss it.” That cooled me down a bit. I “came back down to earth” and realized that I didn’t have complete freedom. Freedom certainly exists, but within certain rules.
I started thinking about freedom and realized that, in principle, this is normal. If we talk about complete freedom in such a direct way, then there is a more accurate name for this phenomenon — permissiveness, or even chaos. It is normal to have freedom within certain limits and rules. Moreover, only through freedom within certain rules are order, harmony, and development possible. If everyone, having “complete freedom,” did whatever they wanted, there would be no order or development, and complete chaos, anarchy, and destruction would reign.
I also felt that I had finally gotten rid of my fear. Let’s put it this way—I was freed from the feeling of fear. Finally, I was not afraid to go out on the street. I was able to calmly enter the metro station without looking around. I was not afraid that I would receive a fine of 17 or 25 thousand hryvnia. I was not afraid that some kind of administrative punishment would come my way.
I had freedom within certain rules, and I had responsibility. Freedom within rules and responsibility is a wonderful combination. And there was no fear of punishment or penalties. Perhaps for the first time in my life, I felt like a citizen of Ukraine.
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