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“Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men”–Daniel O’Connell, Ireland.

Funny, how one movie can leave you so shaken up, sleep evades your body like no one’s business.

Funny, how a Hollywood can portray something so evil, so well.

Funny, how a wake up call is merely fictional.

But, we learn, yeah?

We learn that just because we are young, or small, that we are still a part of what makes the world turn. It’s all kinds of people, all kinds of situations. But, most of all it’s the freedom that we have to do what we love, to choose what we do, to live as we see fit…

And when strange things are used to remind you that freedom may not always be free…then I fear.

I fear bigger things that I can’t possibly try to understand.

I fear forgetting what it took to be free.

I fear forgetting their loss.

I fear their blood was in vane.

Because, today I drank my Starbucks, and I cried tears. I shared in laughter. I’ve lived as I wanted for months, resigning from a job I hated, and starting to work for myself. I lead the life of fulfillment, going to and fro as I please. But it wasn’t always so…

Because I knew for the shortest time what it meant to be ruled and ridiculed, taunted and rejected. But, thankfully I had the choice to walk away.

Sad, because so few people have that reality.

Sad, because they should.

Sad, because I took it for granted.

God forgive me.

May He grant me the memory to never forget. The freedom to always pray. To remember the joys of doing things I love. The freedom to walk, talk, live as I should. Freedom to be me, individual and unique. Not a toy, or stamp of the sate. Freedom to believe and worship, to love and share. To give, to sleep, to eat…

It is so easy to be apathetic to the surroundings. So often have the feelings of betrayal swarmed my soul, choking the very breath that gives my existence. How absurd that I should be so calloused to the world around me, forgetting the vital need to be on my knees…never forgetting to pray or be thankful for the freedom’s we have today.

So hide it in your heart, remember it within your soul, where it on your sleeve…

and be glad that you are free.

Funny, that a movie can make you think.

Funny, how fiction can mock history.

Funny, what it takes to be reminded.

“A brief candle; both ends burning
An endless mile; a bus wheel turning
A friend to share the lonesome times
A handshake and a sip of wine
So say it loud and let it ring
We are all a part of everything
The future, present and the past
Fly on proud bird
You’re free at last.”
–Charlie Daniels

[slide detour for the normal works here...but sometimes a good dose of reality is all that is needed to get back on track...and so I will write again...]