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What’s Trapping You Today?

Beautiful Prisons

Denise Thong
3 min readJul 26, 2019
Source: Mihail Macri

Introduction

For a period of time, the MRT station that I walk past on my journey to work was decorated with a large advertisement for a luxurious condominium.

I did not pay it much attention at first but after walking past the advertisement for a week or so, I thought, “This place looks good. Perhaps, it will be a nice place for me to live in.”

I recoiled at that thought, “Stop it Denise. Don’t you know that that is just a beautiful prison?”

Beautiful Prison

Yes, I do believe that the concept of ‘beautiful prison’ deserves some explanation.

I believe that everyone has a dream aspiration from God. Some of us have a deep desire to become dancers, opera singers, others want to be social workers. In a perfect world, most people will pursue their inner desires.

However, as we grew up, many of us developed appetites for the ‘finer things in life’. We began to desire beautiful clothes, expensive bags, fine dining, expensive cars and luxury apartments.

These distractions, so to speak, force us to seek out jobs to support them. As a result, we are no longer ‘free’ to do what we really want to do.

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Denise Thong
Denise Thong

Written by Denise Thong

Counsellor, Writer (Christianity, Children’s short stories)

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