44 years in prison and the new world outside

What would the world seem like after 44 years

 in prison?

"Get busy living, or get busy dying." - Andy 

A retrospective on the institutionalization dilemma

(The Shawshank Redemption)

        Brooks couldn't make it on the outside, because the world for him, had gotten itself in a God damn hurry. But that did not stop Andy from tunneling his way out, crawling through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness to savor the sweet taste of freedom. Red, too did not give up on his hope of one day rejoining society as a rehabilitated man. But was it the same for him once he was out?

       

A deleted scene from the film, shows Red, overwhelmed with the outside world, fall into a state of panic and despair while at his grocery bagging job at the foodway.

Watch the deleted scences here:

 

"There's a harsh truth to face. No way I'm gonna make it on the outside. All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole, so maybe they'd send me back. Terrible thing, to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense." -Red

So how would it really be for someone to re enter society after 4 decades of incarceration?

This story, is of a similar nature. But this one is real.

Meet Otis Johnson, who went to jail at the age of 25. When he got out at 69, he rejoined a world that was starkly different from the one he remembered. Al Jazeera covers his story.

People "with wires in their ears" listening to music who looked like CIA agents!

"Everything happens for a reason I believe. So I let that go, and deal with the future, instead of dealing with the past. I try not to go backwards, I try to go forward. That's how I survive in society." - Otis Johnson, Incarcerated for 44 years.

"I find I'm so excited that I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at a start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope." - Red.

"Remember Red. Hope, is a good thing. May be the best of things and no good thing ever dies." - Andy