Thursday, August 26, 2010

Freedom

When I see or hear the word freedom, many things come to mind. Not only freedom in the physical sense, but freedom to do and say whatever I want, be friends with whoever I want to be friends with, and achieve whatever I want to with my life. Freedom allows us to achieve a lot of things in life, and I think that a lot of people who live in countries like America may take that right for granted. Without this right I wouldn't have the things that I do have in life and I wouldn't be able to have as bright a future as I do.

 Something else that comes to mind when I think of freedom is the fact that not everyone else in the world has the same amount of freedoms that we do. Some countries in other parts of the world severely limit the amount of freedom that the people living there have, which I think is really unfortunate. I believe that freedom of speech and expression, and the freedom to want your own life without having to follow strict rules, is something that every single person deserves to have.