What gives you strength to keep going when you have no strength left? When family and friends let you down, when society puts you down, and when every person you meet uses, abuses, and takes advantage of you? When they twist every good value you hold—honesty, friendship, love for your country, roots, God, and love itself—to manipulate and exploit you? When you become the one they mock, the one they record 24/7, the one they laugh at, use, and abuse with nowhere to turn for help in a corrupt, organized crime-ridden country—where do you find strength?

Without money, without a job, without support, without coffee, with God turned into evil and hell, and surrounded by haters and corruption in a society entitled to its fake existence, where do you find strength?

You find it in your stories. That’s all you have left—the freedom to speak—and those few who truly know you will know you are right. Entitled narcissistic people manipulate anyone because they can. Without the freedom to tell your story, they’ll manipulate the world as they see fit, because they know how to do it.

This is why freedom of speech is essential—so every one of us can be free to tell our own story and stand up for it.

You do not mess with a good woman!