False freedom

We all have certain interests but we sometimes get too carried away into something that we tend to become slaves to our own interests. We also unknowingly become slaves to things, people and ideas around us - money, material wealth, political views, consumerism and whatnot.

We think we live freely but we don't even contemplate how we are being controlled and manipulated by things and ideas around us. This is a slow and gradual process like termites eating our houses - devouring our very foundation.

When we realise and wake up, we're already too stiff to get up.