Fear Can Hold You Prisoner, Hope Can Set You Free Recently it has been said that some prisoners had escaped from prisons. There have been two cases across the country. Shocking. I begin to think about the word "prison" and what it feels like being a prisoner. I watched the movie "Shawshank`s Redemption" this summer and my heart was cheered by the spirit of Andy. This movie tells us a story about a man`s pursuit of freedom and it is worth of watching. A prison with surrounding dark walls is too terrible to bear. For a prisoner, each morning when he wakes up, the first thing he sees is the hard iron gate; and when a day ends, the last thing that he sees is still that cold iron gate. There is no sunrises and sunsets in a prison, only enveloped coldness that can even kill God to death. It`s like you`ve fallen into a dark, deep hole, and the only thing you hear most is your own breath. Some say it is lucky for a prisoner to breath, which indicates that he is still alive. But how can these people imagine what the living poor man is suffering. He is no longer able to follow his heart. Unfulfilled life is intolerable. Living like a walking corpse is more terrible than death itself. That`s why Andy tries every effort to escape the prison. The prison wall cannot stop a man with undying desire of freedom. Here i am not trying to speak ill of a prison as most people do. I know it better than anything that prisons are everywhere, if you get my point. We are always struggling to deal with prisons. Some of us are even building prisons for themselves. So, even though Andyfinally gets "freedom", the rest of his life is still filled with prisons. This is what i want to regard as "Good Grief". Freedom is born out of prisons. We better learn how to break prison and dwell on it as well--- living it and preparing for the escape,and continuing living it and ...... It is such a long road that you will never see the end. As there is no end to it, why not enjoy it as should be?! And if there must be a cause-effect relation, i would say that`s also why i choose to live my present life. It`s been the first time in my life, when i feel i am needed, when i feel i mean something to the world. It does feel better to give than to receive. Though it`s kinda like living in a prison rather than an eventful life, i make myself looking for something new.