reach strategically

So, today is my first time doing rock climbing! Yippeee!! It was crazy fun! I was really intimidated at first because I have never done it before, even the inside and now I did it on a real cliff in Thailand. It was so much fun though! I went with the people from my church here. So we went to San Khampaeng and there is a place called Crazy Horse, where the cliffs shaped like a crazy horse from a distance. At first I was really intimidated by the heights of the cliff. And then I saw some of the girls done it and I was thinking, "Okay, if they can do it, I can do it too. You know?" So, I keep up the courage. And they told me that this one area that we're climbing is one of the easiest. So I tried this one cliff, and the first 4 meters was awesome. Nothing had happen, but then I was up to the point where everybody seems to have a hard time, and I just couldn't bring my self to do it. I could not find a good grip and I watched people fall from that edge 2 times already. B...

"FREEDOM" When I say that word, that the first thing come to your mind? Philosophically, it's the idea of being free. (Wikipedia) Politically, it's the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression. (I don't understand it either, it's ok) And so many people try to define freedom through many different things. They describe it through sports, through art, music, people, songs, speech, and many others. Since being in Thailand, I would really want to know what freedom means to Thai people. They call this land the land of free, I start searching and really want to know what freedom means to them. Because if this is the land of free, why am I seeing many slavery and people are under the chains of money trying to crawl out and screaming that they want their freedom. This is not a free country after all. And it is sad, because I think they don't even know that it is not freedom that they're getting, but a m...