What
comes to your mind when you come across the word liberation? Do you get the
feeling of excitement, satisfaction or a burden because you know that has to
come with a price? Well whatever emotion you get surely you can agree with me
when I say that there is no greater feeling in the world than that of knowing
that you are independent. But the burden that the same independence carries is none
other than responsibility. “Most people do not really want freedom,
because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of
responsibility,” said Sigmund Freud. Being careful of your surroundings-
minding what you are expressing and to who you are expressing that to, is the
responsibility that goes without saying.
As an
undergraduate journalist I always get excited when I get an assignment that I
have to do outside the institution’s premises. Because that will mean gathering
all the relevant information without being supervised to complete that
assignment. That to me shows the amount of confidence the lectures have on me.
Although the lectures are aware that giving students the freedom of doing unsupervised work is risky simply because they
can be tempted to plagiarize but they know that they have taught us one of the fundamental
things- that reputation is everything in the career path we chose. The media industry
is a very small and competitive industry, everyone knows everyone. The chances
of making slip-up should always be limited.
So that
means with every story I write I should always remember my reputation is on the
line. This experience has made me realised that responsibility is everything and
that when you have been exposed to reality this much, never take it lightly. It
shouldn’t matter how little the project you are responsible for, all you have
to do is do your best and see how many opportunities will come out of it. Never
burn your bridges when you have been given power to do what you are good at. Take
that responsibility and run with it. “The
best road to progress is freedom's road,” John F. Kennedy
