Where Would I Be Without Freedom Essay

Where Would I Be Without Freedom? Essay, Research Paper

I walk upon the earth and marvel at the

ability to let the grass cushion my wandering feet. What if my feet could

not wander? What if I were a slave to this rich soil, then where would

I be?

Society may not be controlled, and it may

wander aimlessly perhaps, but it wanders on its own course. I walk with

society and against it, and I have the freedom to do this. I would not

be able to write such an essay if I didn?t have my freedom. It is this

freedom that allows me to write an essay differently from other people

and is what has taken many others and me as far along in our journey.

Freedom is the grass that cushions my step,

the softness that allows me to tread anywhere without the fear of persecution.

Without this layer of protection I would not want to stray far from what

I know. Without protection from the corrupt world, I would remain the same

immature child who could not walk far from what I could not see.

Light liberates darkness the same as freedom

liberates slaves. Darkness is the absence of light just as slavery is merely

the absence of freedom. Without the light of this freedom I would be in

the shadow of darkness; confined to the barren ignorant lands that light