What freedom makes you

What freedom makes you
: Blue Bird Escape — the wonderful weblog I quote often by an Iranian-American teen who just ended a visit to her homeland — never ceases to amaze me with its sweet insight. Today:

In Iran they say they will go to heaven because they are already in hell.

I also wonder who I would have been if I never lived in Iran. Would I have known what freedom is? Would I have cared about the world?