Freedom/ being alive

Martin Heidegger

I would have to say that Martin Heidegger's philosophy is one of my favorite philosophies out of all of the philosophies I have learned this semester. His philosophy is really easy to understand and it's really relatable. I felt like I was able to connect more to his understandings of life than I was able to connect to the other philosophers. Some of my favorite saying that he said was " we've forgotten that we are all alive" and "we've forgotten we are free". I agree with these 100%. We are always blaming someone for not letting us do something or we always in the hustle and bustle of things and we can't realize that we are human and need a break. We control ourselves, no one else does. We control what we can and cannot do. We allow ourselves to be free but we don't realize we are the ones who control our freedoms in the first place. I think this is because we always think that a high authoritative power is the one who controls your freedom. It's amazing how we always think someone else controls us because that's how people have been controlled for years. Someone has always controlled someone else's freedoms. But it's the 21st century. We control ourselves and we control our freedoms. I think that our own freedoms need to be controlled a little bit when we are younger but I don't think when we get older that our parents or authoritative figures need to control us any longer. ( Unless you really need it.)