About me
If you look in a dictionary, the definition of freedom you’ll find will look like that: “The condition of being free of restraints. Liberty of the person from slavery, detention, or oppression.” This definition is quite large but it means a lot. Lately, in a class, I’ve been asked to talk about the ultimate utopia and it made me think about freedom. Either we’re talking about freedom or utopia; we soon realize it’s different for everybody.
Today I don’t want to talk about political freedom such as democracy against dictatorship. As important as it is, I wouldn’t have much to say about it considering all the information the news are giving us on a daily basic. I’m here to talk about our personal kinds of freedom. The personal type of freedom in which every one of us express himself. For some it will be arts such as music, painting, drawing, sculpting, etc. Whatever is the one thing that makes you feel free, it’s yours. For me, I would say longboarding is my form of freedom. For some people, every kind of skateboard is a way of disturbing their quiet and calm world, and it’s a sport (they wouldn’t even call it sport) that only bums practice. In my opinion, longboard is a form of freedom. When I’m on a longboard and I feel the wind on my face with as sound only silence but the one of the wheels of my board on the ground, I’m really feeling free. As you read this, you might not even understand but that feeling means the world to me.
I said I wouldn’t talk about political freedom… well I lied. All this thread was for you to realize how important is this kind of freedom. As basic as it is, some people in the world don’t even have that kind of freedom and are led by oppressors or dictators. They don’t have any ways to express their ideas and opinions. They are abused physically and mentally in such ways we can’t even imagine. Most people don’t even know about them since medias don’t talk about them, but some others do care about them and those who cares need our help. The “human rights watch” is an organization which tries to help those people by going where they live to talk with them and collect facts about their condition. A simple way to help them is to go visit their website (www.hrw.org) and read their reports and than talk about it with people we know as I do today by writing this. The first step in helping those people is to get informed about their condition and their well being, than help and change will come if they get enough attention for the medias to go there and to get interested in them.
If you look in a dictionary, the definition of freedom you’ll find will look like that: “The condition of being free of restraints. Liberty of the person from slavery, detention, or oppression.” This definition is quite large but it means a lot....
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