Instead of the freedom to be happy.

  • muddi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    This is exactly what the poem Dui Pakhi (Two Birds) by Rabrindranath Tagore is about: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dui-pakhi-two-birds-translation-from-rabindranath-tagore/

    And a little more as well

    • mah [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      it's so beautiful, thank you for sharing it. heart-sickle

      but i don't see it related to the post at all... OP's post feels like serfdom apology? it's super weird honestly. It's not freedom if it's not a choice.

      My reading of Tagore's poem is like: different choices and conditions develop two different worldviews, two solitudes that they could not "explain to each other". But they still loved each other. And - in my reading - the bird in the cage in the end doesn't have "the strength to soar". I feel there is some social commentary behind, probably about colonialism and some "comfort". But I really don't know.

      Thank you again for sharing. Long ago I read Charulata, and it was so powerful and beautiful. I should definitely read more by Tagore.

      • muddi [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Hmm maybe, I see your point. It's very open to interpretation: political , spiritual, personal...I originally was thinking about it in terms of a breakup and some of the things that were said 😅