In response to Christiana Wu’s “Freedom” vignettes.
Freedom to Express
The first time I went to college I was going for theater arts. I took a playwriting class and wrote a one act play that I was extremely proud of and got a lot of compliments from my fellow students. My parents wanted to know what I was working on and I shared it with them and my mom was upset because I’d included a character who was gay. She said some rough things and I still think about it, obviously. I ended up dropping out of the class. To this day I censor any of my work that I share with my folks. So if I were to create something embodying the freedom to express, maybe I would give that one-act a rewrite.
Freedom to Explore
To me this sounds like working on a project that uses a new skill. I’ve dabbled in Unity in the past but I would love to explore that program further. I’d love to just have time to work and expand that skillset and create a little game. Something simple just to get my feet wet. To me the freedom to explore has a lot of overlap with the freedom from expectations so it was difficult to separate the two.
Freedom From Expectations
Speaking of: If I was to make something that was totally free from the expectations of others, it would be a dance video. I think dancing is fun, but I would hate to do it in front of anyone else. Like this would be a project I would work on in secret and never show anyone. But if I was “free from expectations” then maybe I’d release it, who knows. Could be the next Numa Numa Guy.