When Freedom Feels Like Falling
I remember the first time I truly felt free. It was terrifying. The vast expanse of possibility stretched before me, no longer constrained by the familiar chains of expectation.
My breath caught in my throat as I realized: I could do anything. But what?
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness
