“Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.”
–Albert Camus, The Fall (1956)
Freedom is being true to yourself, whatever the cost, like Nelson Mandela, 27 years in prison, before he set others free. And Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. who spoke his truth to power and paid with his life, after setting others free and his words still show us a path to freedom. Tyrants may control our bodies but never our minds. They belong to us and we can still see freedom in our mind’s eye and feel it and remember it or even just imagine it.
In today's world it has become extremely difficult to walk freedom road and be a man of nowhere. I still believe it's worth being courageous and giving it a shot. Camus reminds me to have courage when I just want to despair.