free
Freedom is not just a pretty lyric, an optimist's ideology, or an abstract concept that exists only in the mind of the individual. No, freedom is specific and tangible. It encompasses sights, sounds and tastes. The fiery hues of a sunset, laughter, hot tangy tomyam soup down your throat.
Even when we don't sleep behind bars, we can still be slaves to our careers, inmates of our insecurities. Our self-worth caged in our degrees, our dreams locked up by fear, our hearts closed off to those who truly care.
Because nothing can be worse than having the legal freedom to swim in the ocean like little children, but to choose to confine ourselves in a modicum of safety and monotony all the time.
Even when we don't sleep behind bars, we can still be slaves to our careers, inmates of our insecurities. Our self-worth caged in our degrees, our dreams locked up by fear, our hearts closed off to those who truly care.
Because nothing can be worse than having the legal freedom to swim in the ocean like little children, but to choose to confine ourselves in a modicum of safety and monotony all the time.
