We Have the Right

I imagine this is related to the film, Exit Thru the Gift Shop. I agree that we have the right to express ourselves creatively in whatever way we see fit, however there are limits. For example, if a graffiti artist were to tag my house, I would be pissed. By no means do they have the right to do that. So I'm going to change the direction of this blog. I'm going to say that we have the right to follow our own destiny. I take this to mean that we should be able to be what we want to me, and who we are capable of being.  Unfortunately though, this is not the case.

 I am writing this while reading, The Invisible Man. It is a late blog entry, I know, but I think that it is a perfect blog for the book. The invisible man in the book faces a number of obstacles that preclude him from being the person that he can be. As readers, we do not know what would have happened had some of these events not happened, however we do know that the outcome would have been different.

This is a complicated statement for me to back up because the adversity one faces throughout the course of their life is a large part of what makes them. I am not one that believes that people should not go through hard times in order to achieve their goals. But I do think that it is a tragedy when someone does not reach their full potential because they have not been allowed to follow their own destiny.