Elias

It is a weird feeling to be here, but finally I've realized (not physically but mentally) my freedom.

Almost all the time since my arrival, and still now, the feeling of being in this foreign place with no possibility to change anything about that soon, with limited freedom to move and socialize, has been weird to me.

But I've managed to still get mostly everything I needed and now, inside these possibilities that I have acquired (a place to stay, a toilet and shower, fridge, food, a notebook with internet connection) I am completely free to do whatever I want.

This IS freedom. Freedom will always be set within boundaries. But the freedom I will always have is to act inside these boundaries.

The interesting thing is that these boundaries can also be rather blurry. For example acting strange towards a border police officer could lead to me being stuck at the border. So it feels like a limitation to my freedom, but I could still do it.

Or spending a ton of money on a Pizza is something that is principally possible, but not inside my construction of values that says that I could make 20 Pizzas at home for basically the same money.