"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realised, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you've got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life."

Gregory David Roberts

That moment of choice, that split second where we decide who we are and what we want to be, that instant where the entire universe is open to our personal whim; THAT is freedom. Regardless of the circumstances around us, there is ALWAYS a choice inside and that is what makes us uniquely and beautifully human.

J-Go, you're absolutely correct.