Free Indeed!
Lay’s had a potato chip commercial that said, “You can’t eat just one.” I remember trying to ‘prove’ the commercial wrong. After all, I am free! That is one of my rights as an American. I am free to choose what I want I want to do and how and when I will do it! So that means that I can eat just one…well…kind of.
After I would eat one of those crisp, salty, tasty chips, I would sit there…thinking about how good that one chip was. I would start thinking that it wouldn’t be a big deal to eat another one, and so on, and so on. I can’t remember if I ever was able to eat just one chip! I found myself doing something I told myself I was not going to do! I was free…but I wasn’t, at least not completely.
There is an irony in freedom. While we are free to do what we want to do, we can become enslaved to things we have freely chosen. I guess that’s why I couldn’t eat just one chip. My desire for more chips got in the way of my freedom to decide to eat just one.
Perhaps you’ve experienced this yourself. You’ve decided that you are only going to watch one TV program and end up sitting in front of the TV a few hours. You were only going to eat one helping of mashed potatoes and end up having several. The list could go on and even include more dangerous vices.
