After 15 years of house arrest, what would you do on your first day of freedom?
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November 13th, 2010
Burmese democracy advocate, Aung San Suu Kyi was released today from 15 years of house arrest by the military dictators of Myanmar. The first thing I thought of when the news broke was what would she want to do. Imagine if it were you, and you had been forcibly confined to your own house of the past 15 years. On your first day of freedom, where would you first want to go?
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I would walk. I would go out to the woods and walk for miles on hiking trails, just to enjoy finally being able to feel the freedom of outdoors. And the next day, I would get up and go to a city and walk around the city to refamiliarize myself with what it is like to be amongst people for the first time in 15 years. I would eat/drink at outside cafes, at a street vendor, or an outside ice cream bar. I would be reluctant to go back inside each day, so afraid to lose the freedom of the outdoors again.
First of all,I wanna see the sunshine and touch it.Feeling the warmness and breathing the taste of fleeze.Of course,I wanna talk with someone.I’m longing for new topics and real constraction.I wanna wander aroud,seeing different people,looking different landscapes,eating diverse foods,saying Hi to all kinds of kids,pets.In a word,enjoy every minute of my spare life.
@chyna go for a walk in a park came right to mind! and hug everyone I meet!
No doubt about….......i’d go to Krispy Kreme Doughnut Shop and eat doughnuts and drink coffee, until i became sick.
Have dinner in a restaurant.
Go for a walk in a prairie, then through the woods, then probably go to my favorite restaurant.
After a few hours of freedom I would probably realize how fucked up the world has become and race back home and lock the door!
@john65pennington i’d go to Krispy Kreme Doughnut Shop and eat doughnuts and drink coffee, until i became sick. This from a cop? Tee hee
I would get in my boat and just go! :)
I would walk around outside and breathe.
Go for a long, long ride on my Harley! : D
Drive a car to a fabulous restaurant where friends would be waiting.
after I walked in the park, I would ride a bicycle, as far as I could…
I wouldn’t know what to do. I would probably just look around real quick and hurry back inside. I mean 15 years is a long time to be under house arrest I would imagine It would be scary to go out in public.
Go out, take a deep breath and then go back in again and enjoy my shelter and privacy! Go back to hermit life!
I’d get the ef outta Burma!
None of you would issue a press release and have thousand of supporters mob your compound?
That would be enough to make me consider going back inside.
Walk a little bit and cry from happiness.
Chyna, did you really expect me to say anything else?
Go to the pub first, then get on a train and go to the beach.
I walk straight up to the “military dictators of Myanmar” and punch them in the nose. Then I’d pick up some air freshener and go back home.
Take a vacation as far away from the house (a.k.a. – your prison) as possible. A cruise would be nice.
I assume that perhaps after so much time of being confined within and, inevitably, adapting to it, the outside world might frighten me. I once heard of a man who spent the better part of 30 years in federal prison; upon his release, he just decided to have himself get locked in again.
If not however, as corny as it sounds, I’d find a stream, a river or a lake, and spend the whole night there, getting drunk and looking at the stars.
(If I wasn’t an alcoholic already, I’m sure I woulda became one if such a situation would to change my life this way.)
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