Freedom

Another day has passed, just like that, another day... Times waits for no man as they say... March has already come upon us... and I for one, do not realize the passing of this merciless time... An exam came and went just like that... Another one on the way... Social; Monday... How nice... Haihz... well, I guess that just means more studying later... 5 chapters of social to read through to complete 90 questions of an exam... "whoopieee-dooo" there goes my weekend... well, nothing much to my weekend anyways... might catch a movie or something like that...

Independence, salvation, release, sovereignty... All words best defined by a single word...and one word only; Freedom... To people of this modern world of oblivious crowd, freedom is a priviledge taken for granted...The careless and heedless people of this generation do not appreciate or even acknowledge(for the matter of fact) that freedom was once fought for... Freedom was once killed for... Freedom was once died for... And yet, people still do not realize the depth of this word freedom...

Freedom is a word defined as the condition of being free and unrestrained... However, to seize this condition, disputes, conflicts, wars and blood have been spilt over the freedom of a nation... Our very ancestors, great grandparents and grandparents were all victims of this wars and bloodsheds... However, grandchildren of this generation can't seem to extend to the depth of these disputes, these victims, these sacrifices... All for the sake of freedom... Freedom not only for them but for us... For their countrymen and the children and grandchildren... To be able to live freely without having to worry about the risks of being abused by those bloodthirsty Nazis or those sadistic Japs or those ruthless communists... Without having to worry about being shot at while walking on the streets... Without having to take pre-cautions every second of the day... Without being controlled by a foreigner... Being free...

Have they not sacrificed enough? Have they not fought enough? Have they not proved their freedom, our freedom to be worth the respect? At least Not to merely be taken for granted? Have they fought and died just for us to forget? Have we as free humans forgetten the sacrifice, the losts, the victims? Have we so blatantly forgotten History?

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.(Thomas Campbell)
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.(Dick Cheney)
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.(Frankiln D. Roosevelt)
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.(Woodrow Wilson)