“Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for”- Tenessee Williams
Freedom is something anyone who has it, takes for granted and anyone who doesn’t always longs for. A person doesn’t need to be taught the desire for freedom. We know it instinctively. The impulse to exist, to express, to create and ‘be’ whatever this being is, is so fundamentally human that even people who have never tasted it, give their lives in pursuit of it. Freedom is life itself; the essence of the onward urge; as every person who has escaped chains, every child who has thrown the stone, every person in front of the tank and every hand that takes a pickaxe or a paintbrush to the wall knows.
It’s known here too; in the absence of freedom, some women set themselves on fire to die. I don’t know what kind of ordeal a person needs to be escaping to endure such a painful death, but this article gives some clue.
Kinda puts the rest of our stuff in perspective
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2007407,00.html
PS this time there is a happy ending. The girl was given reconstructive surgery, and the picture you see is the before and after photo.
