Today we celebrate our independence. Now, before you go outside in some hideous red, white and blue shirt, drink yourself into an oblivion and watch your neighbor's kid blow off his index finger with a cherry bomb made in a third world sweat shop, I feel that you owe it to those who risked it all to provide you with the freedom that so many of us take for granted today.
Freedom is something that cannot be priced. It cannot be truly appreciated until it is gone. Ask anyone who has been incarcerated what the most precious thing in the world is and I am sure they will tell you it is the feeling of being free. To live independently, without rule from tyranny, without censorship. The importance of freedom is never stressed enough until it is being infringed or it is too late.
All too often I hear and read people bad mouthing America, bad mouthing our President and his healthcare system and just rotten attitudes towards the government in general. My only problem with these people is that the whole time they are ranting, they never stop and and give credit to the government that actually allows them to question, allows them to rant and rave. They need to take a step back and at least acknowledge that they have been given the freedom and liberty to speak their mind and make change. Some other countries sentence their subordinates to death or prison for the simple act of thinking against the rule of the land. Here we have the freedom to not only speak out against the law but the power to take to the streets and possibly change it.
I sit at my computer able to type whatever I like without fear. I will go outside later and go wherever I please shrouded by the protection that freedom brings with it. I do not always agree with this country. I often fear the decisions that we make might destroy us some day. But, I still fly the flag in front of my house 365 days a year and will always be grateful for the freedom that this country grants to its citizens. Maybe you should be too...
Is it hot in here or am I Crazy?
I too feel fortunate to live in a free country.
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