Our Only Freedom is to Choose Our Beliefs and Reactions. We can rarely control: - What will happen - How others will behave or even - What results our efforts will have The conditions of our lives, such as family, the place and time of our birth combined with our DNA, largely determine our reality. Also, an important role is played by the lessons we need or choose to learn in pleasant and unpleasant ways. However, we are always free to choose differently. It is the gift, the inalienable right, and the greatest challenge for the completion of every human Existence! The only freedom we have as human beings is to choose how we want to interpret, feel, and react to 'random' events and situations. This is the basis of free will