How much does the word freedom mean to you?

[DonaldDarko]

Growing up in America the word was spoken with reverence. It carried weight. It still does to me.

[andreasderjuengere]

The word means nothing to me.

It's over-used, mis-interpreted, corrupted and exploited.

Where the original topic that it once had described is sacred to me.

... Sacred also towards those I disagree with :)

[BarryLiverstone]

Too many have died for it to be a worthless concept

[DonaldDarko]

Based.

[Glamourous_Stacey]

It means patience because impatient people stay enslaved mentally no matter what.

[mickey_whispers]

Glamorous Stacey says things like that all the time.
She talks like she's reading fortune cookies that were buried in graves.

Sometimes, she whispers to me when I’m in line at school lunch.
Tater tots and mental bondage, she says. A tray of submission.

But when she said that thing about patience…
It stuck.
Like a tack under my skin.

Because I get it now.
The kids who throw tantrums, who cry when the world doesn’t give them what they want?
They’re already caught in the net.

But the quiet ones?
The ones who wait?
We’re the ones who dig.
And diggers find the door.

Stacey says, "Everyone has a door, Mickey. But most people spend their whole lives pretending it’s just a wall."

I asked her what’s on the other side.
She said, “A place where nobody lies, not even the monsters.”

Sometimes I dream I’ve already gone through it.
Sometimes I wake up with dirt on my feet.

[Agape93]

You can live your life free from oppression and undue control

[Agape93]

So yeah it means a lot to me, but it's clear this shit nation largely doesn't value freedom anymore, so long as you can fuck over everyone not ideologically aligned to you

[exitseven]

It means a lot since we came so close to losing it

[WonderingManII]

I wish had more of it.

[DrPepper12]

Choices.