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Is there any substitute for freedom?

The past few months have been very emotional for most of us with the ongoing pandemic. With businesses and jobs impacted worldwide, those lucky enough to remain employed have a deeper sense of gratitude and appreciation for their job. But all of us have gone through mental and emotional challenges, including anxiety, depression, exhaustion, and helplessness as we navigate through the ‘new normal’.    Personally, the pandemic has been a significant learning experience. With the internet flooded with perspectives and strategies to deal with these challenges, I believe that we as a community, are more united in supporting each other.  On the same lines of sharing one's lessons, I want to bring up one issue that has been on my mind from past time and in my opinion, it is among the top striking lessons that this pandemic is trying to tell us.  It is the value of freedom that each living species on this planet is entitled to it, not just the humans .   Ironically, as the biggest propone