Canadian - Journalist | June 12, 1981 -
Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.
Amanda Lindhout
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It was a slow understanding that my kidnappers really are a product of their environment.
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What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.
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Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.
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I know firsthand how critical support systems are.
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For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.
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I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.
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Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
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It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.
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I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion.
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I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
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I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.
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