freedom_is_a_choice dafremen You can't stop a man who knows about the wheel. You can't kill a man if he knows we come back. There is a great amount of power in appearing to know what you're doing when you're scared shitless..more than most people would believe. I'm scared shitless some days. Mostly of dying without seeing real change toward social justice for all whose lives are spent to the benefit of society. But I think too much about it. And that'll scare you shitless if you do it too much..and then your ego might come up with some rationalizations to reduce the bruising and the swelling. I'm always so much better off when I let it go. It's always just what I need when I don't worry about it. It's always such a liberating experience to do what I will during this life experience, against what I have been taught to do..in tune with what I feel is right for the time and the place..for my Path, whatever it might be. It's always a surprise when I look back at how easily I've been manipulated into creating a prison in my mind born from fear of consequence. The consequence of risks related to recklessness, self expression, (peaceful) disregard for laws I don't agree with..the list really does go on and on. But see...I made it. I'm still here. I've taken risks..I've been crushed and I'm still here. And I have memories, I have experience and with it a touch of hard-earned wisdom rattling around like a marble inside my head. I wouldn't take those risks back for anything. I wouldn't avoid those consequences for anything. I wouldn't make any decisions differently, (but I won't repeat a few. : ) Freedom is not a delusion or some right granted by a piece of paper. Freedom is a choice. One of them at a time until you know you're free..until the fear subsides. 080802 what's it to you? who go blather from