In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved - Franklin Roosevelt

I have been visiting blogs ,a lot of them these days. To know what people of my age think, to know their likes and dislikes. I am surprised ,happy and inspired to be enlightened that the 20 somethings are well-read , opinionated,aesthetic,colorful . There is a whole gamut of 'bloggies' who write about dire straits ,world cup coups,Indian mythology,British and Indian history,wilde and the likes. It's almost like an encyclopedia but with a fun tag.

So ,I have decided to make my page more romantic . I know my data interpretation skills are too jumbled to get one right conclusion.Nevertheless, I manage most of the times to infer.

Now the blog.........

After a lot of coaxing and comforting I agreed to watch 300. English movies don't feature in my wish-list hence the head-banging persuassion is required.

There is something about the Greeks. Besides illiyad,homer,plato,the peloponessian war,
homosexuality,the spartan anarchy,the trojan war,Herodotus,Olympics,Logic there is more to this great civilization.

The movie takes us back in time around the 400 BC. King Leonidas of Sparta with 300 of his finest soldiers goes to war in an attempt to hold the pass of Thermopylae against the hundreds of thousands of Persian soldiers who had invaded from the north under King Xerxes The Great. Leonidas took his small personal fighting unit because Spartan religious customs forbade sending an army at that time of year. In addition, he was deliberately going to his doom: an oracle had foretold that Sparta could be saved only by the death of one of its kings.

Acording to books , Sparta had the strongest miltary. The boys were trained since the age of 5.
However, what astonishes me is the 'do or die' spirited army. Truely , this was inborn and then grooomed. Sacrificing ones life for freedom of land.

And today wat does freedom mean to us ?
The freedom to make 'my' choices in life and not dictated by society or image. Freedom of decision. Freedom of speech. Freedom of expression

What if we were restricited in entering some part of our own country? What if we were treated like outsiders or unwanted guests in our homes?
To what extent would we go to achieve freedom of land, freedom of living,freedom of self-spirit?

Would we 'do or die'?