get busy living or get busy dying

Just watched Shawshank Redemption after multiple urges from my friends and damn. Damn. It was so uplifting even though ppl died and prison rape was involved but Andy was such an inspiring person and it reminded me a little of Catch Me If You Can but here's a quote about hope from the movie and it isn't cheesy okaye 'I find I'm so excited, 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 the 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.' I find what Red said about being institutionalised very heartbreaking. How the walls of the prison eventually become smth they have to depend on, and when its time for you to leave, you actually want to stay. So ironic I guess that's how prison is a punishment by stripping you of all the choices you were entitled to in life after committing smth terrible, and even if you had the chance to finally break free, it really just imprisons your mind.