I believe that for him personal freedom was not about the contents of a bag or even the journey of thousands and thousands of steps. Freedom for him was the ab

I believe that for him personal freedom was not about the contents of a bag or even the journey of thousands and thousands of steps. Freedom for him was the ability to cast off the trappings that most in society allow to define them. For him, personal freedom was the ability to lie down at night and know that he had done exactly what he wanted to do that day and he did it to the best of his ability. Freedom meant he could think great thoughts or he could just be; he dreamed; he appreciated the beauty of the world around him as the rest of us did what was required of us rather than what enriched us; he formed a relationship with his God; rather than just having faith, he lived his faith. Freedom is different for each of us but maybe it was what Shakespeare was saying when he said "To thine own self be true." We all seek personal freedom, I just define it as dreaming, creating, building, nourishing, challenging, changing and pursuing...freedom is not the ability to do these things, but actually in doing them.