This hits very close and I guess you only realize it if at some point of your life you live where you'd rather not but have no way to get out.
I need permission from my government if I want to leave
the country. Being given a passport is apparently not a
right. Oh and they cost quite a bit of money and are
valid only 5 years. That works out to a certain amount of
money per day just to be able to exist outside the
borders of the country I was born in. Good thing it
doubles as an ID card, I can save a bit there. Now I’ve
never done anything from the list of offenses that would
stop me from receiving a passport but I really wonder who
gave who the right to stop anybody from going where they
wanted to go. It makes very little sense to me, all these
countries each with their own set of laws, borders,
border guards to keep people out of one place, border
guards to keep people in another place and so on. It
feels as though they’re all prisons, just large enough
that you can’t see the fences on the edge. But the fences
are definitely there. And you can only buy your way out.
Never mind that to go somewhere else you are also going
to have to buy your way in.
