I once dated a girl.  I dated more than one and more than once before you think any satirical thoughts and later express them.

Anyhow, get over it and relax.  Shake it off.  Be free and easy.

This girl seemed grounded enough and said she only wanted me for me and only wanted my love for hers.  Seemed a fair deal so I took it.

So I gave and got.  Then I gave more and got a little less.  Before long I seemed to give almost all that I had to give and though it may not have been much it was all that I had to give.  And all I heard was what I was not giving and what else she needed me to give that was, yes, part of what I was not giving.

I loved this girl so I tried all in my power to make her happy, to satisfy her growing list of needs and wants and wishes and dreams and all that nature had given for her to freely desire.  But, yeah, you guessed it.  I kept up for awhile and before long fell out of the race.  To her credit she did nothing to hurt me- she simply worked it so that it would be me who would have little choice but to break things off.  Maybe that was kind, maybe it was her way of avoiding any blame.

Later she found another, and then another.  To be fair yet again, so did I.

In remembering I seem to be forgetting what it was I got while doing all that giving.  Must have been worth it I guess.

How much can any one person be expected to give to another?  Some say it could be endless as in the case of a parent providing for a child.  Or later in life when that parent wants the giving returned.  Perhaps it is a spouse whose needs must be met in order to preserve the union.  Maybe it is a little puppy dog or an old blind cat.

So what do you want?

And what are you willing to give for it?

Do you want it for free?

Would you take it for free if you could?

Seems to me that though maybe none of it is necessarily a zero sum game there does need to be balance.  How can there be takers when there are no givers?  How can you continue to consume what is no longer produced?  When all is free does it really contain any value any longer?

Free love- easy lay.

Free lunch- no one else wanted it.

Free speech- as opposed to enslaved speech?

Free for the taking- only if somehow it is also free for the giving.

Free for the asking- yeah, why not.

Free thinker- are you really?

Free spirit- who defines spirit?

Free time- always.

Free estimate- yeah, I’ve had those too.

Free marketplace- used to work pretty well I heard.

Free world?  Free for all.

Free pass.

Freeloader.

Freedumb.