I've got a little ritual I wanted to share: On campus, there is a Free Speech Monument. "This soil and the airspace extending above it shall not be a part of any nation and shall not be subject to any entity's jurisdiction," it says. And every time I walk across Sproul Plaza, I walk straight towards that monument, and go out of my way to walk around it.
The freedom that that monument embodies is important to me, and I don't want to waste it with random foot traffic. I want to save the freedom for when I need it, for some moment when I need to stand in an ungoverned circle of earth and say something people don't want to let me to. Seeing everyone else arbitrarily step all over that monument is just a sign to me of how much people take their freedom of speech for granted, and how little they actually think about it.
It's good that people can take our freedom for granted, but that doesn't mean they should. If we don't think about it regularly, how are we going to notice if it's taken from us piece by piece? A Freedom Canary?