Digging your way to freedom

You’ve spent years staring at the same walls - the same routine, the same meetings, the same small box they call “security.”

But somewhere deep down, you’ve been digging. Not with a shovel, but with ideas. Late nights. Hidden notebooks. Quiet research when everyone else has gone to bed.

You tell yourself it’s just a side project - but you know it’s more than that. It’s your tunnel out. Every plan, every email, every line of code or sketch of a logo - that’s another scrape at the wall.

You don’t know exactly where it leads, only that it’s away.

Then one day, the wall gives way. You look back at the life you’re leaving and realize - you were never meant to stay caged.

Some people call it quitting.

You’ll call it escape.

And out there, under the open sky of possibility, you’ll finally breathe again.

Because freedom doesn’t start the day you leave the job.

It starts the night you first pick up the shovel and start digging your way to freedom.

John Thornewill

21st October 2025