In Fine Feather

Good Morning Friday,

It's been awhile since I've spoken to many of you. Hopefully everyone's doing well. I'm sure all of you are working hard at your own commitments, likewise for me.

Myself, I'll be fulfilling my obligated liability towards our country in about a month's time. Having spent monotonous days in these 2 years, I experienced frustrations, unreasonableness, difficulties, and though they might not be the harshest treatments people may think, there was no option to quit, thus an extremely tough test of endurance for me. Through these days, I found something I long for, very much.

I incorporated that into the Friday Logo. It's a quill that stands for freedom.

Today's context is, more often than not, a person may take his rights of doing what he wants for granted. What he doesn't realise is that the rights he has had actually been paid at someone else's expense. You have been enjoying freedom at the cost of others. Now I'm not saying it's a bad thing, because I too received such luxury. I'm reiterating the fact to appreciate the price of freedom, because it is simply too expensive.

I want you to know, Friday, you are granted liberty in this FAM. You are given the freedom of speech, of action, of choice. You are entitled the pleasure of making your own decisions here, this is what the feather signifies. We all have our own constraints and it would be impossible to cater to everyone's needs. Yet there is no pressure on you to commit time and efforts to Friday. What you are expected to do here, is enjoy the leisure, release the stress and just be yourself. Thus, I hope you can recognise the extravagance of this, especially in this world of reality. Freedom is not something that can be obtained easily. The extent of such luxury is bounded to the consideration for others. People may feel that what they want differ from what you want. I trust all of you mature young adults to exercise independence, balance your lifestyle and achieve freedom your own way while appreciating the limitations of such privilege.

Honestly, for being such a small FAM, we've shown results which are actually impressive for us to attain. This cannot have been done without everyone's contribution. And I look forward to that, on board this journey taking pleasure in our accomplishments, you too as an individual will find a purpose in a goal truly to yourself and of course, fall back on the feathers in this nest should you need our support. So when you do succeed earning your freedom, please share it with the people who work hard for this common aspiration in their lives.

Go forth spread your wings and fly everyone!

Leader of Friday,
Felix