Freedom

Freedom

Freedom is a word commonly misconceived by those who are ignorant to the fact that as long as there are those who can control us in any way or even attempt to control us than there is something holding us back to are full potential. All through my life I have failed to realize this until now as I am talking to this man who calls himself Montage. It is funny how when you stop looking for something it finally shows up. Because only as I was chatting with this Montage did I realize that even now that I have erased myself from the thing that has been holding me back, I am still not free.

I guess my quest for freedom began when I was a boy. In school the teachers would call me a delinquent because I always asked why. Whenever the teacher would talk about a subject I wouldn’t want to know the how, I already knew how it worked, but I wanted to know why. Why did it work, why did we need it, and why is it so important that you feel the need to take seven hours out of your day to teach us this?

Although the teachers told my parents of the monstrosity of my actions, they did nothing. Not because they agreed with me, but because they just didn’t care. They were to busy watching TV to care.

I joined the Air Force to try and forget everything in my life and focus in just one thing. Plus my mom always said that no one ever died in war. She said that with every intention of it being true, but ironically the first thing my drill sergeant said to me was don’t bother making friends, you’ll just be disappointed. It was only until my first battle that I figured out what he was talking about. I came out of the core hating this world even more. Now I was grown out of being confused, and I was angry with everyone and everything that ever caused me pain.

One day a man came to me in a desperate hour in his life. He quickly gave me a book and said for me to keep the memory alive. He then ran away to never be seen again. Shortly after, my TV told me to turn it on. When I did there was a news report of a man accused of being seen with a book. I wondered if it was the same man, but the face was