"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe As a teenager, I used to cry to my dad because of his strict rules for me, often saying, "Why don't you just lock me up and throw away the key!" Dramatic much? I fought back, thinking I knew best, that I had control over my behavior, and that I would always make the right choice and not need anyone's help. I viewed all of his rules as obstructions to my freedom. All my poor sweet dad was intending to do was set some sensible boundaries to protect me from boys with not-so-good intentions, laziness, idleness, and just general teenage girl tendencies that possibly reaped life-altering consequences he had witnessed too frequently as a high school principal. He just wanted the best for me. As America celebrates their 250th year as an independent country, our founding doctrines guarantee us freedom from an overreaching tyrannical ...
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