FREEDOM

I am an atheist or perhaps an agnostic, I cannot say.  They will label me anyway, as they deem fit.

But, 

I do not tell anyone to accept as true one face or another structure or a power.

Nor I do not tell people that they believe in something that I do not.

I do not tell others that we are poles apart.

I never feel the burden of a missed ritual, because I overslept today which was because I worked hard yesterday.

I do not tell any one that they are different and so must be looked down upon.

I do not feel weighed down, if I did not get myself out of bed, to go a congregation, and instead spend the entire morning holding my son, watching his favourite cartoon.

I do not tell other people to do something, because when they will grow old they will feel the need for it.

I do not tell anyone to believe, because if they do not they will face dire consequences.

I do not feel anything if someone told me so either.

I am happy the way I am and yet why does it make any one else unhappy.

Am I free or am I  just bound in chains that I just do not see?

So am I a good man or am I not? Not that it matters anyway!!

Madhav Nair